Illness	Number of cases
Dorsalgia (M54.4)	238
Gonarthrosis arthrosis of knee (M17.1)	127
Other spondylopathies (M48.06)	119
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.1)	98
Coxarthrosis arthrosis of hip (M16.1)	87
Spondylosis - Other spondylosis with radiculopathy lumbar region (M47.26)	45
Dorsalgia - Low back pain (M54.5)	39
Other dorsopathies not elsewhere classified - Cervicobrachial syndrome (M53.1)	37
Shoulder lesions (M75.4)	33
Spondylosis - Other spondylosis with radiculopathy lumbosacral region (M47.27)	32

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Comprehensive pain control for acute pain (8-919)	626
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the spine and spinal cord without contrast medium (3-802)	493
Surgical incision into the spinal canal (5-033.0)	310
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.00)	254
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.10)	205
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.02)	203
Function-orientated physical exercises and uses (8-561.1)	202
Surgical fixation of vertebrae using devices such as screws or plates (5-835.9)	195
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.20)	192
Surgical removal of diseased bone or joint tissue in the spine (5-832.8)	184

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
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
CQ01	Die vom Gemeinsamen Bundesausschuss (G-BA) formulierte Qualitätsicherungs-Richtlinie regelt die Anforderungen an Krankenhäuser in Bezug auf Struktur-, Prozess- und Ergebnisqualität bei der stationären Behandlung von Patienten mit chirurgisch behandlungsbedürftigem Bauchaortenaneurysma. Das Kreiskrankenhaus Mechernich erfüllt hierfür sowohl die personellen und fachlichen Anforderungen wie auch die strukturellen und organisatorischen Voraussetzungen.
CQ07

No.

Explanation

CQ01

Die vom Gemeinsamen Bundesausschuss (G-BA) formulierte Qualitätsicherungs-Richtlinie regelt die Anforderungen an Krankenhäuser in Bezug auf Struktur-, Prozess- und Ergebnisqualität bei der stationären Behandlung von Patienten mit chirurgisch behandlungsbedürftigem Bauchaortenaneurysma. Das Kreiskrankenhaus Mechernich erfüllt hierfür sowohl die personellen und fachlichen Anforderungen wie auch die strukturellen und organisatorischen Voraussetzungen.

CQ07

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

Number	Group
70	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*
7	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
5	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
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Participation in multi-centre Phase I/II studies
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks
Doctoral supervision