Illness	Number of cases
Somatoform disorders - Pain disorder exclusively related to psychological factors (F45.41)	335
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.1)	334
Dorsalgia - Low back pain (M54.5)	305
Other spondylopathies (M48.06)	296
Dorsalgia (M54.4)	281
Osteoporosis with pathological fracture (M80.88)	168
Fibromyalgia (M79.70)	78
Other spondylopathies - Spinal stenosis cervical region (M48.02)	65
Other dorsopathies not elsewhere classified - Sacrococcygeal disorders not elsewhere classified (M53.3)	63
Other dorsopathies not elsewhere classified - Cervicobrachial syndrome (M53.1)	52

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
X-rays of the joints with contrast medium (3-13k)	1.014
X-rays of other organs with contrast medium (3-13x)	812
Operation using aids for optical magnification, e.g. magnifying spectacles, operating microscope (5-984)	800
Treatment by injecting a medicine into an organ or tissue, or removal of excess fluid (effusion) e.g. from the joints (8-020.5)	741
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a joint of the spine (8-917.13)	670
Other operations on the spine (5-839.60)	567
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.00)	526
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic around a nerve root or nerve close to the spine (8-914.12)	432
Surgical removal of diseased intervertebral disc tissue (5-831.0)	393
Regional pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a space in the spinal canal (epidural space) (8-910)	299

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Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 3755 , 3753 , 2300 , 1700

Type of specialist department

Main Department

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Services

Quality

External comparative quality assurance

Further information

External quality assurance according to state law
No participation

External quality assurance according to the DMP

Diabetes mellitus Typ 1

Angebot des Westdeutschen Diabetes- und Gesundheitszentrums

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
64	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*
18	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
18	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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General information

Research & teaching

Job	Explanation
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities
Lectureships / teaching posts at universities of applied sciences
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)	Famulaturen und das Praktische Jahr können bei uns absolviert werden.
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies	Teilnahme an Studien im Rahmen des DarmkrebZentrums
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks	Atlas of postmortem Angiography Springer 4/2016
Doctoral supervision

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB05	Medical technical radiology assistant (MTRA) (m/f)
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)	Medical School academia chirurgica GmbH
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)
HB16	Dietician (m/f)
HB19	Nursing professionals	in Kooperation mit der St. Elisabeth-Akademie und weiteren Partnern aus Düsseldorf