Illness	Number of cases
Somatoform disorders - Pain disorder exclusively related to psychological factors (F45.41)	386
Spondylosis (M47.80)	26
Dorsalgia (M54.4)	15
Other spondylopathies (M48.06)	10
Spondylosis (M47.86)	7
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.2)	7
Osteoporosis with pathological fracture (M80.98)	6
Other joint disorders not elsewhere classified (M25.55)	5
Zoster herpes zoster (B02.2)	not specified
Zoster herpes zoster - Zoster with other complications (B02.8)	not specified

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Interdisciplinary management of patients with chronic pain (8-918.02)	334
Interdisciplinary management of patients with chronic pain (8-918.00)	75
(9-984.7)	74
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the spine and spinal cord without contrast medium (3-802)	59
(9-984.8)	49
Interdisciplinary management of patients with chronic pain (8-918.10)	35
(9-984.6)	35
(9-984.b)	31
Interdisciplinary management of patients with chronic pain (8-918.12)	20
Interdisciplinary management of pain with short-term treatment (8-91b)	17

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 3753

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

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
31	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*
25	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
25	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
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies
Participation in multi-centre Phase I/II studies
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Participation in multi-centre phase III/IV studies
Lectureships / teaching posts at universities of applied sciences	Universität des Saarlandes; Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster; Semmelweis-Universität Budapest; University of London, Universität Heidelberg
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks	z.B. Lehrbuch Klinische Radiologie Fakten, 07. Auflage, Pickuth, Dirk; Strahlentherapie, 02. Auflage, Wannemacher, Wenz, Debus, Pickuth, Dirk; "HEALTHCARE EXECUTIVES - The Essentials for Excellence in Leadership and Management", Pickuth, Dirk; Taschenbuch Onkologie, Co Autor Metzger, Ralf

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)
HB10	Midwife (m/f)
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)
HB09	Speech therapist (m/f)