Illness	Number of cases
Dorsalgia (M54.4)	182
Other dorsopathies not elsewhere classified - Cervicobrachial syndrome (M53.1)	26
Fibromyalgia (M79.70)	18
Dorsalgia - Low back pain (M54.5)	16
Somatoform disorders - Pain disorder exclusively related to psychological factors (F45.41)	13
Dorsalgia - Pain in thoracic spine (M54.6)	12
Pain not elsewhere classified (R52.2)	9
Other spondylopathies (M48.06)	8
Dorsalgia unspecified (M54.90)	6
Other joint disorders not elsewhere classified (M25.56)	5

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Interdisciplinary management of patients with chronic pain (8-918.12)	345
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a joint of the spine (8-917.1x)	166
Regional pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a space in the spinal canal (epidural space) (8-910)	136
(9-984.7)	68
Interdisciplinary management of patients with chronic pain (8-918.02)	39
(9-984.6)	36
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic around the autonomic (sympathetic) nervous system (8-916.10)	23
(9-984.8)	13
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic around a nerve root or nerve close to the spine (8-914.11)	12
(9-984.b)	7

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 0100

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

Teilnahme an sonstigen Verfahren der externen vergleichenden Qualitätssicherung

Implementation of resolutions of the Federal Joint Committee on quality assurance (G-BA)

No.	Explanation
CQ31

Further training
pursuant to Article 136b, para. 1, sentence 1, no. 1 of the SGB

Number	Group
90	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
64	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
Doctoral supervision
Lectureships / teaching posts at universities of applied sciences
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)
Participation in multi-centre phase III/IV studies
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)	Physiotherapie-Schule. Ausbildung an eigenen Ausbildungsstätten.
HB13	Medical technical assistant for functional diagnostics (MTAF) (m/f)
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)	Schule für Operationstechnische Assistenten (OTA-Schule). Ausbildung an eigenen Ausbildungsstätten.
HB19	Nursing professionals	Für die Ausbildung zur Pflegefachfrau/zum Pflegefachmann steht die Pflegeschule am Alfried Krupp Krankenhaus zur Verfügung.
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)
HB05	Medical technical radiology assistant (MTRA) (m/f)