Illness	Number of cases
Injury of nerves and spinal cord at neck level (S14.12)	20
Paraplegia and tetraplegia (G82.43)	6
Other inflammatory spondylopathies - Discitis unspecified thoracic region (M46.44)	6
Spread metastasis of cancer in otherwise unspecified areas of the body (C79.5)	5
Other diseases of spinal cord (G95.10)	5
Other diseases of spinal cord (G95.18)	5
Injury of nerves and spinal cord at thorax level (S24.11)	4
Intracranial and intraspinal abscess and granuloma - Intraspinal abscess and granuloma (G06.1)	not specified
Other polyneuropathies (G62.80)	not specified
Paraplegia and tetraplegia (G82.12)	not specified

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Interdisciplinary management of paraplegia (8-976.00)	55
Treatment by specific positioning of the patient in bed, e.g. positioning in a sling table or special bed (8-390.1)	36
(9-984.7)	23
(9-984.b)	23
Interdisciplinary management for colonisation or infection with multiresistant germs (pathogens) (8-987.13)	21
Exchange or removal of a urinary catheter through the abdominal wall (8-133.0)	18
Computer-assisted analysis of the images with 3D-analysis (3-990)	16
Evaluation of swallowing with the help of a tube-shaped instrument with a camera mounted at the end (endoscope) (1-613)	13
Examination of the oesophagus, stomach and duodenum by endoscopy (1-632.0)	12
Computed tomography (CT) of the spine and the spinal cord without contrast medium (3-203)	11

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Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 2891

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

Bezeichnung
Teilnahme externe Qualitätssicherung	0

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
10	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*
7	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
7	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
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks
Doctoral supervision