Illness	Number of cases
Other rheumatoid arthritis - Rheumatoid arthritis without rheumatoid factor unspecified site (M06.00)	425
Seropositive rheumatoid arthritis - Other rheumatoid arthritis with rheumatoid factor of unspecified site (M05.80)	404
Psoriasis (L40.5)	221
Polyarthrosis - Other polyosteoarthritis (M15.8)	182
Ankylosing spondylitis of multiple sites in spine (M45.00)	151
Other systemic involvement of connective tissue - Polymyalgia rheumatica (M35.3)	91
Fibromyalgia (M79.70)	88
Other systemic involvement of connective tissue - Other specified systemic involvement of connective tissue (M35.8)	70
Somatoform disorders - Pain disorder exclusively related to psychological factors (F45.41)	63
Gout - Idiopathic gout unspecified site (M10.00)	54

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Function-orientated physical exercises and uses (8-561.1)	2.019
Complex differential diagnostic sonography of the vascular system with quantitative evaluation (3-035)	397
Analysis of the amount of carbon monoxide taken in and given off by the lungs (1-711)	335
Treatment with electrical currents, usually directly through the skin (8-650)	302
Assessment of a mental illness or of the relationship between mental and physical problems (1-900.0)	186
(9-984.7)	181
Measurement of the mineral content of the bone - bone density measurement (3-900)	175
Treatment by injecting a medicine into an organ or tissue, or removal of excess fluid (effusion) e.g. from the joints (8-020.x)	160
Interdisciplinary management of patients with chronic pain (8-918.00)	83
Special microscope, for example, used to show the back of the eye (retina) (3-301.x)	78

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In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 0900

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

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
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*
37	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
37	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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General information

Research & teaching

Job	Explanation
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities	Universität Magdeburg, Charité Berlin
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)	Universität Magdeburg
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities	Universität Magdeburg (Institut für Immunologie), Charité Berlin (Klinik für Rheumatologie)
Participation in multi-centre phase III/IV studies
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks
Doctoral supervision

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)
HB06	Occupational therapist (m/f)
HB05	Medical technical radiology assistant (MTRA) (m/f)
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)
HB12	Medical technical laboratory assistant (MTLA) (m/f)
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)
HB19	Nursing professionals