Illness	Number of cases
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.1)	146
Gonarthrosis arthrosis of knee (M17.1)	96
Other spondylopathies (M48.06)	79
Internal derangement of knee (M23.32)	73
Coxarthrosis arthrosis of hip (M16.1)	69
Spondylosis - Other spondylosis with radiculopathy lumbar region (M47.26)	39
Disorders of patella (M22.2)	38
Shoulder lesions (M75.4)	36
Spondylosis (M47.86)	33
Complications of internal orthopaedic prosthetic devices implants and grafts (T84.04)	30

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the spine and spinal cord without contrast medium (3-802)	368
Operation using aids for optical magnification, e.g. magnifying spectacles, operating microscope (5-984)	248
Surgical incision into the spinal canal (5-033.0)	244
(9-984.7)	169
Surgical removal of diseased bone or joint tissue in the spine (5-832.4)	140
Computed tomography (CT) of the spine and the spinal cord without contrast medium (3-203)	127
(9-984.8)	119
Operation on the articular cartilage or on the cartilage discs (menisci) by endoscopy (arthroscopy) (5-812.5)	114
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.00)	111
Other operations on the spine (5-839.60)	111

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

Yes

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 2300 , 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

Implementation of resolutions of the Federal Joint Committee on quality assurance (G-BA)

No.	Explanation
CQ06

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

Number	Group
79	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*
61	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
61	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 universities of applied sciences
Doctoral supervision
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)
HB02	Health and paediatric nurse (m/f)
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)
HB10	Midwife (m/f)
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)