Illness	Number of cases
Fibroblastic disorders - Palmar fascial fibromatosis Dupuytren (M72.0)	80
Arthrosis of first carpometacarpal joint (M18.1)	59
Other disorders of skin and subcutaneous tissue not elsewhere classified - Excessive and redundant skin and subcutaneous tissue (L98.7)	44
Disorders of continuity of bone (M84.14)	43
Synovitis and tenosynovitis (M65.14)	40
Fracture of forearm (S52.51)	39
Injury of muscle and tendon at wrist and hand level (S66.1)	34
Other arthrosis (M19.13)	27
Other arthrosis (M19.23)	26
Injury of nerves at wrist and hand level (S64.4)	25

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Operation using aids for optical magnification, e.g. magnifying spectacles, operating microscope (5-984)	205
Revision operations (5-983)	165
Operation to divide adhesions around a nerve or to relieve pressure on the nerve or to abolish the nerve function (5-056.40)	122
(5-86a.00)	82
Computed tomography (CT) of the musculoskeletal system without contrast medium (3-205)	76
Surgical reduction of a comminuted fracture in the joint region of a long bone and fixation of the bone fragments using devices such as screws or plates (5-794.k6)	69
Operation on the connective tissue sheaths around the muscles and tendons in the hand or fingers (5-842.71)	60
Operation to divide adhesions around a nerve or to relieve pressure on the nerve or to abolish the nerve function (5-056.3)	54
Surgical removal of bone tissue for purposes of transplantation (5-783.0d)	53
Operation on the tendons of the hand (5-840.61)	52

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

Yes

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Yes

Department key

Department key: 1900

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

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
105	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*
94	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
82	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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Research & teaching

Job	Explanation
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks
Doctoral supervision