Illness	Number of cases
Dorsalgia (M54.4)	485
Other dorsopathies not elsewhere classified - Cervicobrachial syndrome (M53.1)	86
Dorsalgia - Low back pain (M54.5)	26
Dorsalgia - Radiculopathy thoracic region (M54.14)	16
Dorsalgia - Cervicalgia (M54.2)	13
Dorsalgia - Pain in thoracic spine (M54.6)	6
Fracture of lumbar spine and pelvis (S32.1)	5
Malignant neoplasm of bronchus and lung (C34.0)	not specified
Spread metastasis of cancer in otherwise unspecified areas of the body (C79.5)	not specified
Malignant neoplasm without specification of site - Disseminated malignant neoplasm unspecified (C80.0)	not specified

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Treatment by injecting a medicine into an organ or tissue, or removal of excess fluid (effusion) e.g. from the joints (8-020.4)	629
Treatment with electrical currents, usually directly through the skin (8-650)	550
Function-orientated physical exercises and uses (8-561.2)	523
Treatment of muscles, ligaments, or the skeletal system by the external application of shock waves (8-115.x)	487
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a joint of the spine (8-917.13)	319
Treatment of pain by the introduction of a liquid anaesthetic around other nerves outside the brain and spinal cord (8-915)	218
Interdisciplinary management of patients with chronic pain (8-918.01)	181
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a joint of the spine (8-917.1x)	166
Computer-assisted analysis of the images with 3D-analysis (3-990)	141
Function-orientated physical exercises and uses (8-561.1)	136

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Quality

External comparative quality assurance

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External quality assurance according to state law

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Teilnahme externe Qualitätssicherung	0

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
16	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*
16	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
16	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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