Illness	Number of cases
Dorsalgia (M54.4)	182
Gonarthrosis arthrosis of knee (M17.1)	125
Coxarthrosis arthrosis of hip (M16.1)	115
Coxarthrosis arthrosis of hip - Other unilateral secondary osteoarthritis of hip (M16.7)	107
Gonarthrosis arthrosis of knee - Other unilateral secondary osteoarthritis of knee (M17.5)	83
Dorsalgia - Radiculopathy lumbar region (M54.16)	62
Internal derangement of knee (M23.22)	53
Dorsalgia - Low back pain (M54.5)	29
Shoulder lesions (M75.4)	23
Dislocation sprain and strain of joints and ligaments of knee (S83.2)	21

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the spine and spinal cord without contrast medium (3-802)	192
Surgical implantation of an artificial hip joint (5-820.00)	170
Surgical implantation of artificial knee joint (5-822.j1)	116
(9-984.7)	110
Operation on the articular cartilage or on the cartilage discs (menisci) by endoscopy (arthroscopy) (5-812.5)	97
Comprehensive pain control for acute pain (8-919)	86
Operation on the articular cartilage or on the cartilage discs (menisci) by endoscopy (arthroscopy) (5-812.eh)	84
Regional pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a space in the spinal canal (epidural space) (8-910)	84
(9-984.8)	81
Treatment by injecting a medicine into an organ or tissue, or removal of excess fluid (effusion) e.g. from the joints (8-020.5)	75

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
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
37	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*
31	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
31	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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Accessibility information

General information

Research & teaching

Job	Explanation
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB06	Occupational therapist (m/f)
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)
HB13	Medical technical assistant for functional diagnostics (MTAF) (m/f)
HB05	Medical technical radiology assistant (MTRA) (m/f)
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)