Illness	Number of cases
Fibromyalgia (M79.70)	667
Other soft tissue disorders not elsewhere classified - Myalgia unspecified site (M79.10)	247
Other systemic involvement of connective tissue - Polymyalgia rheumatica (M35.3)	211
Seropositive rheumatoid arthritis - Other rheumatoid arthritis with rheumatoid factor of unspecified site (M05.80)	206
Other rheumatoid arthritis - Rheumatoid arthritis without rheumatoid factor unspecified site (M06.00)	153
Psoriasis (L40.5)	134
Rheumatoid arthritis unspecified (M06.90)	75
Other necrotizing vasculopathies (M31.3)	44
Other necrotizing vasculopathies - Other giant cell arteritis (M31.6)	44
Ankylosing spondylitis of multiple sites in spine (M45.00)	32

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Function-orientated physical exercises and uses (8-561.1)	1.891
Others therapeutic procedures to influence the immune system (8-547.31)	928
Procedure for dialysing the blood outside the body with removal of the poison over a concentration gradient - dialysis (8-854.2)	889
Blood purification outside the body through a combination of haemofiltration and dialysis (8-855.3)	658
Blood purification outside the body through a combination of haemofiltration and dialysis (8-855.4)	562
Procedure for dialysing the blood outside the body with removal of the poison over a concentration gradient - dialysis (8-854.3)	431
Interdisciplinary management of patients with chronic pain (8-918.00)	290
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the spine and spinal cord without contrast medium (3-802)	154
(9-984.7)	150
Computed tomography of the chest with contrast medium (3-222)	130

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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
72	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*
64	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
64	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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