Illness	Number of cases
Other spondylopathies (M48.06)	144
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.1)	140
Dorsalgia - Radiculopathy lumbar region (M54.16)	52
Cervical disc disorders (M50.1)	24
Other spondylopathies - Spinal stenosis cervical region (M48.02)	12
Fracture of lumbar spine and pelvis (S32.03)	11
Other dorsopathies not elsewhere classified - Sacrococcygeal disorders not elsewhere classified (M53.3)	8
Dorsalgia - Radiculopathy cervical region (M54.12)	8
Complications of internal orthopaedic prosthetic devices implants and grafts (T84.20)	8
Dorsalgia - Low back pain (M54.5)	7

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Operation using aids for optical magnification, e.g. magnifying spectacles, operating microscope (5-984)	384
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.30)	266
Other operations on the spine (5-839.60)	185
Surgical removal of diseased intervertebral disc tissue (5-831.2)	153
Surgical removal of diseased intervertebral disc tissue (5-831.0)	99
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the spinal canal with contrast medium (3-841)	91
(5-83b.70)	89
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic around a nerve root or nerve close to the spine (8-914.12)	63
(5-83b.50)	62
Surgical stiffening of the spine - spondylodesis (5-836.40)	54

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 1591

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

Bezeichnung
Teilnahme externe Qualitätssicherung	0
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Teilnahme externe Qualitätssicherung	0
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Teilnahme externe Qualitätssicherung	0

External quality assurance according to the DMP

Diabetes mellitus Typ 1

Teilnahme an sonstigen Verfahren der externen vergleichenden Qualitätssicherung

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
65	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*
65	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
59	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
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Lectureships / teaching posts at universities of applied sciences
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)
Participation in multi-centre phase III/IV studies

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)
HB10	Midwife (m/f)
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)