Illness	Number of cases
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.1)	172
Other spondylopathies (M48.06)	160
Dorsalgia (M54.4)	41
Cervical disc disorders (M50.1)	33
Other spondylopathies - Spinal stenosis cervical region (M48.02)	26
Other spondylopathies - Spinal stenosis lumbosacral region (M48.07)	12
Other dorsopathies not elsewhere classified (M53.22)	10
Other dorsopathies not elsewhere classified - Cervicobrachial syndrome (M53.1)	7
Complications of procedures not elsewhere classified (T81.4)	7
Dorsalgia - Low back pain (M54.5)	6

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Operation using aids for optical magnification, e.g. magnifying spectacles, operating microscope (5-984)	361
Other operations on the spine (5-839.60)	201
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.00)	185
Surgical removal of diseased intervertebral disc tissue (5-831.0)	139
Other operations on the spine (5-839.61)	137
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.20)	134
Surgical incision into diseased bone or joint tissue in the spine (5-830.2)	130
Patient education (9-500.0)	124
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.01)	123
Surgical removal of diseased intervertebral disc tissue (5-831.2)	96

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Yes

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

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Teilnahme externe Qualitätssicherung	2
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Teilnahme externe Qualitätssicherung	2
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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
48	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*
44	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
36	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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