Illness	Number of cases
Other spondylopathies (M48.06)	137
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.1)	94
Dorsalgia (M54.4)	59
Spondylosis (M47.86)	53
Spinal osteochondrosis - Adult osteochondrosis of spine lumbar region (M42.16)	30
Other spondylopathies - Spinal stenosis cervical region (M48.02)	28
Cervical disc disorders (M50.1)	28
Osteoporosis with pathological fracture (M80.88)	27
Dorsalgia - Low back pain (M54.5)	25
Other deforming dorsopathies - Spondylolisthesis lumbar region (M43.16)	19

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Operation using aids for optical magnification, e.g. magnifying spectacles, operating microscope (5-984)	405
Operation with the smallest possible incision into the skin and minimal tissue damage (minimally invasive) (5-986.x)	267
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a joint of the spine (8-917.13)	222
Surgical removal of diseased intervertebral disc tissue (5-831.2)	154
Other operations on the spine (5-839.60)	140
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.00)	139
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic around a nerve root or nerve close to the spine (8-914.12)	113
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.02)	111
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.10)	107
Surgical removal of diseased bone or joint tissue in the spine (5-832.4)	102

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 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

Teilnahme an sonstigen Verfahren der externen vergleichenden Qualitätssicherung

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

No.	Explanation
CQ31

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

Number	Group
32	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*
30	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
29	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
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Participation in multi-centre phase III/IV studies
Doctoral supervision

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)