Illness	Number of cases
Fibromyalgia (M79.70)	205
Seropositive rheumatoid arthritis - Other rheumatoid arthritis with rheumatoid factor of unspecified site (M05.80)	196
Other rheumatoid arthritis - Rheumatoid arthritis without rheumatoid factor unspecified site (M06.00)	123
Psoriasis (L40.5)	83
Ankylosing spondylitis of multiple sites in spine (M45.00)	63
Other systemic involvement of connective tissue - Other specified systemic involvement of connective tissue (M35.8)	62
Somatoform disorders - Pain disorder exclusively related to psychological factors (F45.41)	60
Other systemic involvement of connective tissue - Polymyalgia rheumatica (M35.3)	53
Other systemic involvement of connective tissue (M35.0)	47
Other joint disorders not elsewhere classified - Pain in unspecified joint (M25.50)	40

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Medical monitoring of an infectious disease (1-930.0)	2.521
Measurement of lung function in an airtight cabin - whole body plethysmography (1-710)	1.045
Analysis of the amount of carbon monoxide taken in and given off by the lungs (1-711)	979
Others therapeutic procedures to influence the immune system (8-547.31)	781
Function-orientated physical exercises and uses (8-561.1)	526
Interdisciplinary management of rheumatoid disease (8-983.1)	452
Others therapeutic procedures to influence the immune system (8-547.30)	309
Others therapeutic procedures to influence the immune system (8-547.0)	270
Measurement of the mineral content of the bone - bone density measurement (3-900)	239
Assessment of a mental illness or of the relationship between mental and physical problems (1-900.0)	174

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Yes

Department key

Department key: 0109

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

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
15	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*
10	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
10	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	Professur für Innere Medizin, Rheumatologie und klinische Immunologie an der Universitätsmedizin Mainz, Ausbildung von Studenten im praktischen Jahr für jeweils 4 Wochen innerhalb des Inneren Tertials. Regelmäßige Vorlesungen
Participation in multi-centre phase III/IV studies	in Kooperation mit dem Schwerpunkt Rheumatologie und klinisches Immunologie und dem IZKS, Universitätsmedizin Mainz
Doctoral supervision	ständig ca. 5 Medizin-Doktoranden mit rheuma-, bzw. rehaspezifischen Promotionsthemen
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies	LKP für eine Reihe von multizentrischen Sudien
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)	Ausbildung von Studenten im Praktischen Jahr für jeweils 4 Wochen innerhalb des Inneren Tertials, Rheumaintensivpraktikum für Medizinstudenten im 7. - 10. Semester. Wahlpflichtwoche Rheumatologie 5./6. klinisches Semester
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities	Landesleitprojekt Adapthera, Lupus-Biobank Oberrhein - EU-Interregio-Projekt mit der Universität Strassburg und der Universität Freiburg. Lupus-Biobank Oberrhein / RARENET, Rheuma-VOR: Forschungsprojekt für neue Versorgungsformen durch den Innvosationsfond beim Gemeinsamen Bundesausschuss