Illness	Number of cases
Spondylosis (M47.86)	312
Gonarthrosis arthrosis of knee (M17.1)	263
Intracranial injury (S06.0)	171
Other spondylopathies (M48.06)	133
Coxarthrosis arthrosis of hip (M16.1)	122
Dorsalgia (M54.4)	113
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.1)	92
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.2)	52
Other dorsopathies not elsewhere classified - Sacrococcygeal disorders not elsewhere classified (M53.3)	45
Somatoform disorders - Pain disorder exclusively related to psychological factors (F45.41)	41

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Treatment by the targeted insertion of a needle into a joint with subsequent administration or removal of substances, e.g. fluid (8-158.t)	454
Treatment by injecting a medicine into an organ or tissue, or removal of excess fluid (effusion) e.g. from the joints (8-020.x)	447
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a joint of the spine (8-917.13)	437
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the spine and spinal cord without contrast medium (3-802)	418
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic around a nerve root or nerve close to the spine (8-914.12)	382
Computed tomography (CT) of the head without contrast medium (3-200)	272
Treatment of pain by the introduction of a liquid anaesthetic around other nerves outside the brain and spinal cord (8-915)	269
(9-984.7)	243
Surgical implantation of artificial knee joint (5-822.g1)	223
Computed tomography (CT) of the spine and the spinal cord without contrast medium (3-203)	222

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

Yes

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Yes

Department key

Department key: 2300

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
40	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*
1	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
0	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

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)	Dies findet in der Ategris Fachschule für Gesundheitsberufe in Mühlheim an der Ruhr statt.
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)	Berufsbezeichnung: Pflegefachassistentin/Pflegefachassistent Dies findet im Bildungszentrum Niederrhein (BZNW) statt.
HB19	Nursing professionals	Dies findet im Bildungszentrum Niederrhein (BZNW) statt.