Illness	Number of cases
Dorsalgia (M54.4)	59
Dorsalgia - Low back pain (M54.5)	40
Other dorsopathies not elsewhere classified - Cervicobrachial syndrome (M53.1)	26
Fibromyalgia (M79.70)	21
Dorsalgia - Cervicalgia (M54.2)	14
Other joint disorders not elsewhere classified (M25.51)	8
Other soft tissue disorders not elsewhere classified (M79.67)	8
Other joint disorders not elsewhere classified (M25.55)	5
Other joint disorders not elsewhere classified (M25.56)	5
Dorsalgia unspecified (M54.99)	5

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Interdisciplinary management of patients with chronic pain (8-918.13)	86
Interdisciplinary management of patients with chronic pain (8-918.12)	75
Interdisciplinary management of patients with chronic pain (8-918.02)	37
(9-984.7)	18
(9-984.b)	11
(9-984.6)	8
Interdisciplinary investigation of pain (1-910)	7
(9-984.8)	5
Examination of the oesophagus, stomach and duodenum by endoscopy (1-632.0)	0
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic around a nerve root or nerve close to the spine (8-914.12)	0

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 participation

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

Number	Group
82	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*
66	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
66	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
Doctoral supervision
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities	Priv.-Doz. Dr. Oliver Al-Taie Lehrbeauftragung an der Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)	Seit 2006 ist das St. Franziskus-Hospital ein etablierter Ausbildungsstandort der Universität zu Köln. Seit Beginn haben hier weit mehr als 100 Studenten ihr internistisches Tertial absolviert und wurden erfolgreich zu Ärzten ausgebildet. - Betreuung von universitären Abschlussarbeiten
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities	Durchführung von pflegewissenschaftlichen Forschungsvorhaben
Participation in multi-centre Phase I/II studies	Pflege
Lectureships / teaching posts at universities of applied sciences

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB20	Nursing professional B. Sc.
HB18	Emergency paramedics (m/f) (training period 3 years)	praktische Ausbildung in Kooperation
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)
HB02	Health and paediatric nurse (m/f)
HB09	Speech therapist (m/f)
HB21	Geriatric nurse (m/f)
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)
HB06	Occupational therapist (m/f)
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)	und Gesundheits- und Krankenpflegeassistent/in, Pflegefachassistent/innen sowie Medizinische Fachangestellte (MFA). Die Louise von Marillac-Schule ist eine Kooperationsschule der Katholischen Hochschule Köln.