Illness	Number of cases
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.1)	287
Other spondylopathies (M48.06)	282
Dorsalgia - Low back pain (M54.5)	218
Dorsalgia (M54.4)	171
Osteoporosis with pathological fracture (M80.88)	146
Other dorsopathies not elsewhere classified - Sacrococcygeal disorders not elsewhere classified (M53.3)	53
Other spondylopathies - Spinal stenosis cervical region (M48.02)	52
Cervical disc disorders (M50.1)	33
Other deforming dorsopathies - Spondylolisthesis lumbar region (M43.16)	29
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.2)	25

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a joint of the spine (8-917.13)	717
Operation using aids for optical magnification, e.g. magnifying spectacles, operating microscope (5-984)	693
Treatment by injecting a medicine into an organ or tissue, or removal of excess fluid (effusion) e.g. from the joints (8-020.5)	524
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic around a nerve root or nerve close to the spine (8-914.12)	503
Other operations on the spine (5-839.60)	474
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.00)	459
Regional pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a space in the spinal canal (epidural space) (8-910)	398
Surgical removal of diseased intervertebral disc tissue (5-831.2)	338
Taking a tissue sample (biopsy) of bone without surgical incision, guided by imaging procedures such as ultrasound (1-481.4)	276
Procedures on the spine for the treatment of pain, with the smallest possible incision into the skin and minimal tissue damage (minimally invasive) (5-83a.02)	239

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Department key

Department key: 1700 , 2300 , 3753

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 2

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
57	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
42	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
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
Doctoral supervision

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)
HB05	Medical technical radiology assistant (MTRA) (m/f)
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)	In Zusammenarbeit mit der Kaiserswerther Diakonie erfolgt bei uns der praktische Teil der Ausbildung zum Operationstechnischen Assistenten (OTA).
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)
HB16	Dietician (m/f)
HB19	Nursing professionals	Die Einrichtungen des VKKD gehören zu den katholischen Krankenhausträgern aus Düsseldorf, Neuss und Ratingen, die in 2005 eine gemeinsame Krankenpflegeschule gegründet haben. Die St. Elisabeth-Akademie hat zum 01.06.2005 als eigenständige gGmbH ihren Betrieb aufgenommen.