Illness	Number of cases
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.1)	50
Spinal osteochondrosis - Adult osteochondrosis of spine lumbar region (M42.16)	37
Dorsalgia (M54.4)	32
Spinal osteochondrosis - Adult osteochondrosis of spine cervical region (M42.12)	17
Osteoporosis with pathological fracture (M80.08)	16
Other spondylopathies - Spinal stenosis cervical region (M48.02)	12
Spinal osteochondrosis - Adult osteochondrosis of spine lumbosacral region (M42.17)	11
Dorsalgia - Radiculopathy lumbar region (M54.16)	8
Dorsalgia - Radiculopathy lumbosacral region (M54.17)	7
Other deforming dorsopathies - Spondylolisthesis lumbosacral region (M43.17)	6

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the spine and spinal cord without contrast medium (3-802)	211
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.00)	183
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a joint of the spine (8-917.13)	129
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic around a nerve root or nerve close to the spine (8-914.12)	123
(9-984.7)	105
Surgical removal of diseased intervertebral disc tissue (5-831.0)	103
Other operations on the spine (5-839.60)	101
(8-831.00)	93
Operation using a navigation system which produces real-time 3-D images of the surgical site during the operation (5-988.0)	89
Surgical fixation of vertebrae using devices such as screws or plates (5-835.9)	82

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Department key

Department key: 3755

Type of specialist department

Main Department

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Services

Quality

External comparative quality assurance

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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
26	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*
19	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
19	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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Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)	In Kooperation mit Gesundheitsschule Osterholz-Scharmbeck und IBS Bremen
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)	Bildungsakademie der Gesundheit Nord