Illness	Number of cases
Seropositive rheumatoid arthritis - Other rheumatoid arthritis with rheumatoid factor of unspecified site (M05.80)	120
Other rheumatoid arthritis - Rheumatoid arthritis without rheumatoid factor unspecified site (M06.00)	84
Fibromyalgia (M79.70)	83
Other systemic involvement of connective tissue - Polymyalgia rheumatica (M35.3)	47
Ankylosing spondylitis of multiple sites in spine (M45.00)	40
Psoriasis (L40.5)	38
Other soft tissue disorders not elsewhere classified - Myalgia unspecified site (M79.10)	23
Other peripheral vascular diseases (I73.0)	21
Other joint disorders not elsewhere classified - Pain in unspecified joint (M25.50)	14
Other systemic involvement of connective tissue - Other specified systemic involvement of connective tissue (M35.8)	12

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Measurement of the mineral content of the bone - bone density measurement (3-900)	625
Function-orientated physical exercises and uses (8-561.1)	561
Others therapeutic procedures to influence the immune system (8-547.31)	548
Treatment by injecting a medicine into an organ or tissue, or removal of excess fluid (effusion) e.g. from the joints (8-020.5)	164
Interdisciplinary management of rheumatoid disease (8-983.1)	154
Treatment procedure to maintain and encourage practical everyday and social skills - psychosocial intervention (9-401.00)	130
Others therapeutic procedures to influence the immune system (8-547.0)	53
Examination of a joint or of a bursa by taking a sample of fluid or tissue with a needle (1-854.7)	52
Complex differential diagnostic sonography of the vascular system with quantitative evaluation (3-035)	48
(9-984.7)	45

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Department key

Department key: 0900

Type of specialist department

Main Department

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Services

Quality

External comparative quality assurance

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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
10	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*
3	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
3	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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Research & teaching

Job	Explanation
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)	Medizinstud. können in jeder Einrichtung des Klinikums Westmünsterland eine Famulatur absolvieren. Acht Ausbildungsplätze für Studenten der Humanmedizin im Praktischen Jahr (PJ) stehen zur Verfügung.