Illness	Number of cases
Dorsalgia (M54.4)	242
Gonarthrosis arthrosis of knee (M17.1)	234
Coxarthrosis arthrosis of hip (M16.1)	166
Shoulder lesions (M75.4)	71
Somatoform disorders - Pain disorder exclusively related to psychological factors (F45.41)	43
Shoulder lesions (M75.1)	33
Fracture of forearm (S52.51)	25
Dorsalgia - Cervicalgia (M54.2)	19
Fracture of shoulder and upper arm (S42.21)	14
Fracture of lower leg including ankle (S82.6)	14

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Treatment of pain by the introduction of a liquid anaesthetic around other nerves outside the brain and spinal cord (8-915)	260
Interdisciplinary management of patients with chronic pain (8-918.00)	222
(9-984.7)	186
Surgical implantation of an artificial hip joint (5-820.00)	170
Surgical implantation of artificial knee joint (5-822.g1)	170
Treatment by injecting a medicine into an organ or tissue, or removal of excess fluid (effusion) e.g. from the joints (8-020.5)	140
Open surgical procedure on a joint (5-800.5h)	124
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic around a nerve root or nerve close to the spine (8-914.02)	122
(9-984.8)	122
Other operations to secure or restore the function of a joint (5-829.6)	112

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

Yes

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 1600

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

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
67	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*
53	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
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities	Unter anderem kooperierendes Krankenhaus für die Hochschule für Gesundheit in Bochum
Participation in multi-centre phase III/IV studies
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies
Doctoral supervision

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)	In Kooperation mit der HSG (Hochschule für Gesundheit Bochum); Studenten der HSG für die Krankenpflegeausbildung
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)
HB06	Occupational therapist (m/f)
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)	Ausbildung im Ausbildungsverbund mit der Augusta-Krankenanstalt Bochum
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)	Ausbildung im Ausbildungsverbund mit der Augusta-Krankenanstalt Bochum
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)	In Kooperation mit dem Kirchlichen Gesundheitszentrum für Gesundheitsberufe in Gelsenkirchen
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB20	Nursing professional B. Sc.	in Kooperation mit dem Gesundheitscampus der Hochschule Bochum (HSG)