Illness	Number of cases
Other dorsopathies not elsewhere classified (M53.26)	226
Dorsalgia (M54.4)	118
Other dorsopathies not elsewhere classified (M53.22)	59
Postprocedural musculoskeletal disorders not elsewhere classified - Pseudarthrosis after fusion or arthrodesis (M96.0)	52
Complications of internal orthopaedic prosthetic devices implants and grafts (T84.20)	45
Scoliosis - Other idiopathic scoliosis thoracolumbar region (M41.25)	41
Dorsalgia - Low back pain (M54.5)	41
Scoliosis (M41.15)	33
Other deforming dorsopathies - Spondylolisthesis lumbar region (M43.16)	32
Other dorsopathies not elsewhere classified - Sacrococcygeal disorders not elsewhere classified (M53.3)	25

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Intensive care monitoring of respiration, the heart and the circulation without measurement of the pressure in the pulmonary artery and in the right atrium of the heart (8-930)	536
Surgical fixation of vertebrae using devices such as screws or plates (5-835.9)	489
Computer-assisted analysis of the images with 3D-analysis (3-990)	437
Patient education (9-500.0)	416
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a joint of the spine (8-917.13)	323
Computed tomography (CT) of the spine and the spinal cord without contrast medium (3-203)	318
Function-orientated physical exercises and uses (8-561.1)	309
Other operations on the spine (5-839.5)	306
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.02)	296
Other operations on the spine (5-839.60)	243

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Yes

Department key

Department key: 1500

Type of specialist department

Main Department

Hospital information and services for all specialist departments

Services

Quality

External comparative quality assurance

Further information

External quality assurance according to state law

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Teilnahme externe Qualitätssicherung	2
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Teilnahme externe Qualitätssicherung	2
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Teilnahme externe Qualitätssicherung	0

Quality of participation in the Disease Management Programme (DMP)
No participation

Implementation of resolutions of the Federal Joint Committee on quality assurance (G-BA)
No participation

Further training
pursuant to Article 136b, para. 1, sentence 1, no. 1 of the SGB

Number	Group
48	Medical specialists (m/f) , psychological psychotherapists (m/f) and child and adolescent psychotherapists (m/f) who are subject to the obligation to undergo further training*
44	Number of medical specialists (m/f) from no. 1 who have completed a five-year period of further training and are therefore subject to the obligation to provide evidence
36	Number of those persons from no. 2 who have provided proof of further training according to Article 3 of the G-BA regulations

* according to the “Provisions of the Joint Federal Committee for the Further Training of Medical Specialists (m/f), Psychological Psychotherapists (m/f) and Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists (m/f) in Hospitals”

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