Illness	Number of cases
Other spondylopathies (M48.06)	299
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.1)	155
Dorsalgia - Radiculopathy lumbosacral region (M54.17)	86
Spondylosis (M47.86)	46
Other spondylopathies - Spinal stenosis cervical region (M48.02)	43
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.2)	34
Dorsalgia - Low back pain (M54.5)	34
Cervical disc disorders (M50.1)	30
Dorsalgia (M54.4)	29
Osteoporosis with pathological fracture (M80.08)	29

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Use of an imaging procedure during an operation (3-992)	813
Operation using aids for optical magnification, e.g. magnifying spectacles, operating microscope (5-984)	660
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the spine and spinal cord without contrast medium (3-802)	456
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.00)	400
Other operations on the spine (5-839.60)	375
Surgical removal of diseased bone or joint tissue in the spine (5-832.4)	312
Treatment procedure to maintain and encourage practical everyday and social skills - psychosocial intervention (9-401.22)	300
Computed tomography (CT) of the spine and the spinal cord without contrast medium (3-203)	287
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.10)	272
Surgical removal of diseased intervertebral disc tissue (5-831.0)	248

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 1700

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

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
51	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*
51	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
51	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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Accessibility information

General information

Research & teaching

Job	Explanation
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities
Doctoral supervision
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)	in Kooperation mit der Ausbildungsstätte St. Barbara-Klinik in Hamm Heessen
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)	Die Canisius Campus Dortmund gGmbH ist eine staatlich anerkannte Pflegeschule und gehört ebenfalls zur Kath. St. Paulus GmbH. Sie bildet für die Krankenhäuser der Kath. St. Paulus Gesellschaft, dazu gehört auch das St. Christophorus Krankenhaus, Fachpersonal in der Pflege aus.
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)
HB20	Nursing professional B. Sc.
HB21	Geriatric nurse (m/f)