Illness	Number of cases
Other spondylopathies (M48.06)	125
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.1)	54
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.2)	45
Dorsalgia (M54.4)	21
Cervical disc disorders (M50.1)	15
Other deforming dorsopathies - Spondylolisthesis lumbar region (M43.16)	9
Dorsopathy unspecified (M53.96)	8
Dorsalgia - Low back pain (M54.5)	7
Other spondylopathies - Spinal stenosis cervical region (M48.02)	6
Postprocedural musculoskeletal disorders not elsewhere classified - Postlaminectomy syndrome not elsewhere classified (M96.1)	5

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Operation using aids for optical magnification, e.g. magnifying spectacles, operating microscope (5-984)	279
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.30)	159
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.10)	153
Other operations on the spine (5-839.60)	127
Surgical removal of diseased bone or joint tissue in the spine (5-832.4)	116
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.00)	105
(5-83b.70)	76
Surgical removal of diseased intervertebral disc tissue (5-831.2)	75
Surgical incision into the spinal canal (5-033.0)	71
Surgical removal of diseased intervertebral disc tissue (5-831.0)	51

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 1700

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 participation

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

Number	Group
18	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*
18	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
18	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
HB11	Podiatrist (m/f)	in Zusammenarbeit mit Podologieschulen
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)	Kooperation mit einer niedergelassenen anästhesiologischen Praxis
HB16	Dietician (m/f)
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)	Kooperation mit der Kaiserwerther Diakonie Düsseldorf und Krankenhaus Maria Hilf Mönchengladbach
HB19	Nursing professionals	Kooperation mit dem Bildungsinstitut für Gesundheitsberufe Rhein-Kreis Neuss
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)	Kooperation mit dem Bildungsinstitut für Gesundheitsberufe Rhein-Kreis Neuss
HB21	Geriatric nurse (m/f)	in Kooperation
HB02	Health and paediatric nurse (m/f)	Kooperation mit dem Bildungsinstitut für Gesundheitsberufe Rhein-Kreis Neuss
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)	Kooperation mit dem Bildungsinstitut für Gesundheitsberufe Rhein-Kreis Neuss
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)	Kooperation mit einer Physiotherapiepraxis