Illness	Number of cases
Dorsalgia (M54.4)	378
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.1)	104
Other spondylopathies (M48.06)	84
Other dorsopathies not elsewhere classified - Cervicobrachial syndrome (M53.1)	50
Other spondylopathies - Spinal stenosis cervical region (M48.02)	18
Osteoporosis with pathological fracture (M80.88)	18
Osteoporosis with pathological fracture (M80.08)	15
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.2)	14
Neuralgia and neuritis unspecified (M79.28)	11
Fracture of lumbar spine and pelvis (S32.01)	11

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Regional pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a space in the spinal canal (epidural space) (8-910)	262
Operation using aids for optical magnification, e.g. magnifying spectacles, operating microscope (5-984)	238
Treatment by injecting a medicine into an organ or tissue, or removal of excess fluid (effusion) e.g. from the joints (8-020.5)	199
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the spine and spinal cord without contrast medium (3-802)	197
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.00)	176
Computed tomography (CT) of the spine and the spinal cord without contrast medium (3-203)	133
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.10)	125
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the spine and spinal cord with contrast medium (3-823)	123
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a joint of the spine (8-917.13)	119
Other operations on the spine (5-839.60)	106

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In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 3755

Type of specialist department

Main Department

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Services

Quality

External comparative quality assurance

Further information

External quality assurance according to state law
No participation

External quality assurance according to the DMP

Diabetes mellitus Typ 2

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
86	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*
86	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
80	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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General information

Research & teaching

Job	Explanation
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities	Universität Duisburg-Essen
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies	VITAS, TrendHip, Anexys u. a.
Doctoral supervision
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)	Vorlesungen, Kleingruppenunterricht, Famulaturen, PJ, Prüfung 2. Staatsexamen
Lectureships / teaching posts at universities of applied sciences	Fliedner Hochschule
Participation in multi-centre phase III/IV studies
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks	Die Orthopädie (Springer), Journal of Functional Biomaterials, International Journal of Molecular Science u. a.

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)	Ausbildungsstart in 2024