Illness	Number of cases
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.1)	174
Other spondylopathies (M48.06)	124
Dorsalgia (M54.4)	81
Cervical disc disorders (M50.1)	23
Dorsalgia - Low back pain (M54.5)	17
Other dorsopathies not elsewhere classified - Cervicobrachial syndrome (M53.1)	15
Other dorsopathies not elsewhere classified (M53.22)	15
Other spondylopathies - Spinal stenosis cervical region (M48.02)	12
Idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (G91.20)	11
Cervical disc disorders (M50.0)	6

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Operation using aids for optical magnification, e.g. magnifying spectacles, operating microscope (5-984)	330
Patient education (9-500.0)	216
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.20)	173
Surgical removal of diseased intervertebral disc tissue (5-831.9)	168
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.00)	153
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.10)	151
Surgical removal of diseased intervertebral disc tissue (5-831.2)	142
Other operations on the spine (5-839.60)	118
Surgical incision into diseased bone or joint tissue in the spine (5-830.2)	105
Other operations on the spine (5-839.61)	101

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Yes

Department key

Department key: 1700

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

Bezeichnung
Teilnahme externe Qualitätssicherung	2
Bezeichnung
Teilnahme externe Qualitätssicherung	2
Bezeichnung
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
47	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*
43	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
40	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”

Accessibility

Accessibility information

General information

Research & teaching

Job	Explanation
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies	-
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)	-
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities	-
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities	-
Doctoral supervision	-