Illness	Number of cases
Dorsalgia (M54.4)	217
Other dorsopathies not elsewhere classified (M53.26)	129
Dorsalgia - Low back pain (M54.5)	61
Complications of internal orthopaedic prosthetic devices implants and grafts (T84.20)	52
Other spondylopathies (M48.06)	50
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.1)	46
Postprocedural musculoskeletal disorders not elsewhere classified - Pseudarthrosis after fusion or arthrodesis (M96.0)	45
Scoliosis - Other idiopathic scoliosis thoracolumbar region (M41.25)	42
Scoliosis (M41.15)	37
Other deforming dorsopathies - Spondylolisthesis lumbar region (M43.16)	34

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Computer-assisted analysis of the images with 3D-analysis (3-990)	480
Patient education (9-500.0)	477
Function-orientated physical exercises and uses (8-561.1)	393
Other operations on the spine (5-839.5)	378
Intensive care monitoring of respiration, the heart and the circulation without measurement of the pressure in the pulmonary artery and in the right atrium of the heart (8-930)	356
Computed tomography (CT) of the spine and the spinal cord without contrast medium (3-203)	350
Surgical fixation of vertebrae using devices such as screws or plates (5-835.9)	339
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a joint of the spine (8-917.13)	334
Transfusion of blood previously taken from a person - autologous blood transfusion (8-803.2)	291
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.02)	257

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Yes

Department key

Department key: 1500

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

Bezeichnung
Teilnahme externe Qualitätssicherung	2
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Teilnahme externe Qualitätssicherung	2
Bezeichnung
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
50	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*
45	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
41	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
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities	-
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)	-
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies	-
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities	-
Doctoral supervision	-