Illness	Number of cases
Somatoform disorders - Pain disorder exclusively related to psychological factors (F45.41)	298
Spondylosis (M47.80)	40
Dorsalgia (M54.4)	18
Spondylosis (M47.86)	8
Malignant neoplasm of prostate (C61)	4
Coxarthrosis arthrosis of hip (M16.1)	4
Other spondylopathies (M48.06)	4
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.2)	4
Zoster herpes zoster (B02.2)	not specified
Malignant neoplasm of oropharynx - Malignant neoplasm of overlapping sites of oropharynx (C10.8)	not specified

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Interdisciplinary management of patients with chronic pain (8-918.02)	213
Interdisciplinary management of patients with chronic pain (8-918.00)	101
(9-984.7)	58
(9-984.8)	35
Interdisciplinary management of patients with chronic pain (8-918.01)	34
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the spine and spinal cord without contrast medium (3-802)	33
Interdisciplinary management of patients with chronic pain (8-918.10)	26
(9-984.6)	24
(9-984.b)	23
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
33	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*
21	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
21	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
Participation in multi-centre phase III/IV studies
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies
Doctoral supervision
Participation in multi-centre Phase I/II studies
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
Lectureships / teaching posts at universities of applied sciences	Universität des Saarlandes; Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster; Semmelweis-Universität Budapest; University of London, Universität Heidelberg

Training

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