Illness	Number of cases
Seropositive rheumatoid arthritis - Other rheumatoid arthritis with rheumatoid factor of unspecified site (M05.80)	1.124
Fibromyalgia (M79.70)	485
Other rheumatoid arthritis - Rheumatoid arthritis without rheumatoid factor unspecified site (M06.00)	345
Psoriasis (L40.5)	237
Ankylosing spondylitis of multiple sites in spine (M45.00)	167
Other systemic involvement of connective tissue - Other specified systemic involvement of connective tissue (M35.8)	61
Other systemic involvement of connective tissue - Polymyalgia rheumatica (M35.3)	54
Other crystal arthropathies - Other chondrocalcinosis unspecified site (M11.20)	50
Systemic sclerosis (M34.8)	39
Other arthritis - Other specified arthritis unspecified site (M13.80)	36

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Treatment with electrical currents, usually directly through the skin (8-650)	8.598
Treatment by injecting a medicine into an organ or tissue, or removal of excess fluid (effusion) e.g. from the joints (8-020.5)	5.745
Measurement of lung function in an airtight cabin - whole body plethysmography (1-710)	1.533
Analysis of the amount of carbon monoxide taken in and given off by the lungs (1-711)	1.529
Measurement of the mineral content of the bone - bone density measurement (3-900)	987
Interdisciplinary management of rheumatoid disease (8-983.0)	527
Patient education (9-500.0)	394
(9-984.7)	317
Specific psychotherapeutic procedure where patients are treated individually - individual therapy (9-410.04)	295
Interdisciplinary management of rheumatoid disease (8-983.1)	266

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Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 0900

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 participation

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

Number	Group
88	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*
68	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
68	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	Lehre an der Universität Halle-Wittenberg im Fachgebiet Pädiatrie
Lectureships / teaching posts at universities of applied sciences
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)	Studierende können Famulaturen in den chefarztgeführten Kliniken absolvieren und werden abteilungsspezifisch im operativen, stationären u. ambulanten Umfeld eingesetzt. Kompetenzen werden je nach Ausbildungsstand vermittelt. Jährlich findet in Kooperation mit dem UKM ein spezieller Studientag statt.
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities	Kooperation mit: - DRFZ Berlin (Kerndoku, ICON Studie, Jumbo Register, COACH-Projekt) - Universitäten (Kinderrheumatologische Forschung (GKJR, PReS, OMERACT)) - Uniklinik Münster (Rheumatologie u. Klin. Immunologie) - Uniklinik Münster (KOMPASSD2-Projekt zur Delirprophylaxe u. –therapie)
Participation in multi-centre phase III/IV studies	Die Klinik für Rheumatologie nimmt teil an multizentrischen Phase-III/IV-Studien, insbesondere zu Basismedikamenten und Biologika in der Rheumatologie. Die Klinik für Kinder-u. Jugendrheumatologie nimmt teil am Arzneimittelregister BIKER in Kooperation mit St. Augustin zu MTV und Biologikatherapie.
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies	Ultraschallstudie im Rahmen der GKJR/PReS
Participation in multi-centre Phase I/II studies	Die Klinik für Rheumatologie nimmt teil an multizentrischen Beobachtungsstudien z.B. Langzeitbeobachtungsstudie Bilanz II zur Osteoporose.
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks
Doctoral supervision

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)
HB02	Health and paediatric nurse (m/f)
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)
HB06	Occupational therapist (m/f)
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB21	Geriatric nurse (m/f)
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)
HB20	Nursing professional B. Sc.