Illness	Number of cases
Gonarthrosis arthrosis of knee (M17.1)	1.263
Coxarthrosis arthrosis of hip (M16.1)	1.046
Coxarthrosis arthrosis of hip (M16.3)	86
Complications of internal orthopaedic prosthetic devices implants and grafts (T84.05)	55
Dislocation sprain and strain of joints and ligaments of knee (S83.53)	51
Gonarthrosis arthrosis of knee - Bilateral primary osteoarthritis of knee (M17.0)	48
Coxarthrosis arthrosis of hip - Other unilateral secondary osteoarthritis of hip (M16.7)	28
Internal derangement of knee (M23.81)	26
Gonarthrosis arthrosis of knee - Osteoarthritis of knee unspecified (M17.9)	24
Other disorders of cartilage (M94.26)	24

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Open surgical procedure on a joint (5-800.4h)	1.443
Open surgical procedure on a joint (5-800.4g)	1.278
Surgical implantation of an artificial hip joint (5-820.00)	923
Surgical implantation of artificial knee joint (5-822.00)	633
Surgical implantation of artificial knee joint (5-822.g1)	582
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic around the autonomic (sympathetic) nervous system (8-916.0x)	345
Surgical implantation of an artificial hip joint (5-820.02)	291
Operation with the smallest possible incision into the skin and minimal tissue damage (minimally invasive) (5-986.x)	264
Operation on the kneecap (patella) or its ligaments (5-804.0)	251
Other operations on the muscles, tendons, their connective tissue sheaths or bursae (5-859.18)	227

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

Yes

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Yes

Department key

Department key: 2300

Type of specialist department

Main Department

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Services

Quality

External comparative quality assurance

Further information

External quality assurance according to state law

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Teilnahme externe Qualitätssicherung	0
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Teilnahme externe Qualitätssicherung	2
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Teilnahme externe Qualitätssicherung	2

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
47	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*
47	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
47	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
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks
Doctoral supervision
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities