Illness	Number of cases
Dorsalgia (M54.4)	87
Dorsalgia - Low back pain (M54.5)	37
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.1)	33
Spondylosis - Other spondylosis with radiculopathy lumbar region (M47.26)	29
Other dorsopathies not elsewhere classified - Cervicobrachial syndrome (M53.1)	13
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.2)	9
Dorsalgia - Radiculopathy lumbar region (M54.16)	7
Dorsalgia - Cervicalgia (M54.2)	6
Other spondylopathies (M48.06)	5
Zoster herpes zoster (B02.2)	not specified

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Treatment of muscles, ligaments, or the skeletal system by the external application of shock waves (8-115.x)	312
Interdisciplinary management of patients with chronic pain (8-918.01)	114
Interdisciplinary investigation of pain (1-910)	107
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a joint of the spine (8-917.13)	93
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a joint of the spine (8-917.1x)	77
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the spine and spinal cord without contrast medium (3-802)	62
Interdisciplinary management the musculoskeletal system without surgery (8-977)	50
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic around a nerve root or nerve close to the spine (8-914.12)	42
Extended investigation of pain, with special equipment for monitoring and the possibility of the administration of medicines, as well as uniform follow-up of therapeutic success (1-911)	34
(9-984.7)	24

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 2300

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	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.	Explanation
CQ28

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

Number	Group
54	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*
35	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
27	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
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities	Chefarzt der Klinik für Urologie Prof. Dr. Gerald Haupt: Universität zu Köln, Lehrangebote Urologie
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)	Famulatur

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB06	Occupational therapist (m/f)	Schule staatlich anerkannt, Grundlage: Ergotherapeutengesetz
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)	Kooperation mit dem Bildungszentrum am Marienhaus Klinikum Hetzelstift in Neustadt/ Weinstraße, Gesamtverantwortung: Pflegedirektion
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)	Schule staatlich anerkannt, Grundlage: Physiotherapeuten- und Masseurgesetz. Begleitendes Studium mgl. Abschluss: Bachelor of Science Physiotherapie (B.Sc.)
HB19	Nursing professionals	Schule staatlich anerkannt, Grundlage: Pflegeberufegesetz. Die Ausbildung zur Pflegefachfrau / zum Pflegefachmann ist zugelassen nach der "Akkredizierungs- und Zulassungsverordnung Arbeitsförderung" (AZAV, SGB III).