Illness	Number of cases
Seropositive rheumatoid arthritis - Other rheumatoid arthritis with rheumatoid factor of unspecified site (M05.80)	395
Systemic sclerosis (M34.8)	317
Somatoform disorders - Pain disorder exclusively related to psychological factors (F45.41)	290
Rheumatism unspecified (M79.00)	191
Other rheumatoid arthritis - Rheumatoid arthritis without rheumatoid factor unspecified site (M06.00)	183
Polyarthrosis - Primary generalized osteoarthritis (M15.0)	150
Other systemic involvement of connective tissue - Polymyalgia rheumatica (M35.3)	122
Ankylosing spondylitis of multiple sites in spine (M45.00)	119
Systemic sclerosis - Progressive systemic sclerosis (M34.0)	103
Other systemic involvement of connective tissue - Other overlap syndromes (M35.1)	97

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Function-orientated physical exercises and uses (8-561.1)	1.629
Analysis of the amount of carbon monoxide taken in and given off by the lungs (1-711)	1.363
Measurement of lung function in an airtight cabin - whole body plethysmography (1-710)	1.340
Others therapeutic procedures to influence the immune system (8-547.31)	1.112
Treatment by injecting a medicine into an organ or tissue, or removal of excess fluid (effusion) e.g. from the joints (8-020.5)	737
Others therapeutic procedures to influence the immune system (8-547.0)	527
Function-orientated physical exercises and uses (8-561.2)	421
Six-minute walk test (as described by Guyatt) (1-715)	389
Specific psychotherapeutic procedure where patients are treated individually - individual therapy (9-410.05)	330
(9-984.7)	311

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Type of specialist department

Main Department

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Services

Quality

External comparative quality assurance

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External quality assurance according to state law
No participation

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

Teilnahme an sonstigen Verfahren der externen vergleichenden Qualitätssicherung

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
62	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*
51	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
51	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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Research & teaching

Job	Explanation
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks
Doctoral supervision
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)	Famulaturen
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Participation in multi-centre phase III/IV studies