Illness	Number of cases
Dorsalgia (M54.4)	228
Gonarthrosis arthrosis of knee (M17.1)	214
Coxarthrosis arthrosis of hip (M16.1)	156
Shoulder lesions (M75.4)	69
Internal derangement of knee (M23.22)	38
Shoulder lesions (M75.1)	31
Somatoform disorders - Pain disorder exclusively related to psychological factors (F45.41)	29
Fracture of femur (S72.01)	27
Fracture of forearm (S52.51)	19
Acquired deformities of fingers and toes (M20.1)	18

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Surgical implantation of artificial knee joint (5-822.g1)	216
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic around a nerve root or nerve close to the spine (8-914.02)	215
Interdisciplinary management of patients with chronic pain (8-918.00)	214
Treatment by injecting a medicine into an organ or tissue, or removal of excess fluid (effusion) e.g. from the joints (8-020.5)	212
(9-984.7)	176
Surgical implantation of an artificial hip joint (5-820.00)	170
Open surgical procedure on a joint (5-800.5h)	109
Treatment of pain by the introduction of a liquid anaesthetic around other nerves outside the brain and spinal cord (8-915)	99
(9-984.8)	99
Other operations to secure or restore the function of a joint (5-829.6)	98

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
68	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*
55	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
28	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 f. Gesundheitsberufe in Gelsenkirchen
HB19	Nursing professionals