Illness	Number of cases
Gonarthrosis arthrosis of knee (M17.1)	558
Coxarthrosis arthrosis of hip (M16.1)	452
Other spondylopathies (M48.06)	205
Dorsalgia - Radiculopathy lumbar region (M54.16)	193
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.1)	172
Internal derangement of knee (M23.23)	56
Acquired deformities of fingers and toes (M20.1)	47
Shoulder lesions (M75.1)	44
Spondylosis - Other spondylosis with radiculopathy lumbar region (M47.26)	42
Cervical disc disorders (M50.1)	34

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Treatment of pain by the introduction of a liquid anaesthetic around other nerves outside the brain and spinal cord (8-915)	1.194
Operation using a navigation system which produces real-time 3-D images of the surgical site during the operation (5-988.3)	830
Treatment by injecting a medicine into an organ or tissue, or removal of excess fluid (effusion) e.g. from the joints (8-020.4)	822
Treatment with electrical currents, usually directly through the skin (8-650)	685
Function-orientated physical exercises and uses (8-561.1)	578
Surgical implantation of artificial knee joint (5-822.g1)	334
Surgical implantation of an artificial hip joint (5-820.00)	327
Open surgical procedure on a joint (5-800.4h)	261
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic around a nerve root or nerve close to the spine (8-914.12)	256
Surgical implantation of artificial knee joint (5-822.01)	237

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Yes

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

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Department key: 2300

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Main Department

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Services

Quality

External comparative quality assurance

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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
21	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*
14	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
14	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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