Illness	Number of cases
Other spondylopathies (M48.06)	242
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.2)	229
Other spondylopathies - Spinal stenosis cervical region (M48.02)	85
Dorsalgia (M54.4)	51
Dorsalgia - Low back pain (M54.5)	46
Other deforming dorsopathies - Spondylolisthesis lumbar region (M43.16)	42
Cervical disc disorders (M50.2)	35
Spondylosis (M47.86)	33
Osteoporosis with pathological fracture (M80.08)	33
Spread metastasis of cancer in otherwise unspecified areas of the body (C79.3)	28

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Operation using aids for optical magnification, e.g. magnifying spectacles, operating microscope (5-984)	968
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.00)	474
Surgical removal of diseased bone or joint tissue in the spine (5-832.4)	428
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.30)	384
Other operations on the spine (5-839.60)	374
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.10)	348
Operation using a navigation system which produces real-time 3-D images of the surgical site during the operation (5-988.3)	265
Surgical removal of diseased intervertebral disc tissue (5-831.2)	235
(9-984.7)	188
Other operations on the spine (5-839.61)	158

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 1700

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

External quality assurance according to the DMP

Chronische obstruktive Lungenerkrankung (COPD)

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
86	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*
78	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
76	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	Prof. Dr. R. Krämer, Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein Lübeck Priv.-Doz. Dr. F. Kutscha-Lissberg, Universität Bochum Priv.-Doz. Dr. J. Stattaus, Universität Essen Priv.-Doz. Dr. C. Brenke, Universität Bochum Priv.-Doz. Dr. M. Utech, Uniklinik Münster
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities	LeAf Trauma
Participation in multi-centre Phase I/II studies	Plasma on chronic wounds for epidermal Regeneration (POWER)

Training

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