Illness	Number of cases
Other spondylopathies (M48.06)	66
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.1)	63
Other deforming dorsopathies - Spondylolisthesis lumbar region (M43.16)	38
Somatoform disorders - Pain disorder exclusively related to psychological factors (F45.41)	36
Osteoporosis with pathological fracture (M80.08)	31
Postprocedural musculoskeletal disorders not elsewhere classified - Pseudarthrosis after fusion or arthrodesis (M96.0)	25
Other spondylopathies - Spinal stenosis cervical region (M48.02)	17
Dorsalgia - Low back pain (M54.5)	17
Other inflammatory spondylopathies - Discitis unspecified lumbar region (M46.46)	14
Osteoporosis with pathological fracture (M80.88)	14

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Surgical fixation of vertebrae using devices such as screws or plates (5-835.9)	256
Surgical removal of bone tissue for purposes of transplantation (5-783.0x)	220
Surgical removal of diseased bone or joint tissue in the spine (5-832.5)	198
Other operations on the spine (5-839.5)	175
Surgical removal of diseased intervertebral disc tissue (5-831.0)	171
Operation using aids for optical magnification, e.g. magnifying spectacles, operating microscope (5-984)	171
Surgical incision into the spinal canal (5-033.0)	164
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.02)	158
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.20)	131
Computed tomography of the chest with contrast medium (3-222)	128

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 1516

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
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.	Explanation
CQ25
CQ01
CQ31

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

Number	Group
169	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*
132	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
118	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	7 Studien
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities
Participation in multi-centre Phase I/II studies	12 Studien
Lectureships / teaching posts at universities of applied sciences
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities	Studienprojekte mit nationalen und internationalen Hochschulen
Participation in multi-centre phase III/IV studies	26 Studien
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks
Doctoral supervision

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)
HB05	Medical technical radiology assistant (MTRA) (m/f)
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)
HB12	Medical technical laboratory assistant (MTLA) (m/f)