Illness	Number of cases
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.1)	104
Other spondylopathies (M48.06)	62
Other deforming dorsopathies - Spondylolisthesis lumbar region (M43.16)	46
Spondylosis (M47.87)	46
Osteoporosis with pathological fracture (M80.88)	38
Spinal osteochondrosis - Adult osteochondrosis of spine lumbar region (M42.16)	20
Dorsalgia - Low back pain (M54.5)	15
Other spondylopathies - Spinal stenosis cervical region (M48.02)	13
Dorsalgia - Radiculopathy lumbosacral region (M54.17)	12
Dorsalgia (M54.4)	12

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Operation using aids for optical magnification, e.g. magnifying spectacles, operating microscope (5-984)	290
Other operations on the spine (5-839.60)	159
Surgical removal of diseased intervertebral disc tissue (5-831.0)	116
Surgical removal of diseased bone or joint tissue in the spine (5-832.4)	100
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.01)	98
(5-83b.70)	89
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.20)	88
Surgical fixation of vertebrae using devices such as screws or plates (5-835.9)	87
Surgical removal of diseased intervertebral disc tissue (5-831.2)	78
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.10)	77

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 3755

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
CQ25
CQ31
CQ27

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

Number	Group
81	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”

Accessibility

Accessibility information

General information

Research & teaching

Job	Explanation
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Participation in multi-centre phase III/IV studies
Lectureships / teaching posts at universities of applied sciences
Doctoral supervision
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB10	Midwife (m/f)
HB18	Emergency paramedics (m/f) (training period 3 years)	Parktische Anteile in Kooperation mit der Stadt Köln