Illness	Number of cases
Gonarthrosis arthrosis of knee (M17.1)	610
Coxarthrosis arthrosis of hip (M16.1)	502
Other spondylopathies (M48.06)	232
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.1)	186
Dorsalgia - Radiculopathy lumbar region (M54.16)	175
Internal derangement of knee (M23.23)	63
Complications of internal orthopaedic prosthetic devices implants and grafts (T84.5)	58
Cervical disc disorders (M50.1)	47
Spondylosis - Other spondylosis with radiculopathy lumbar region (M47.26)	40
Shoulder lesions (M75.1)	40

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Treatment by injecting a medicine into an organ or tissue, or removal of excess fluid (effusion) e.g. from the joints (8-020.4)	764
Treatment of pain by the introduction of a liquid anaesthetic around other nerves outside the brain and spinal cord (8-915)	676
Operation using a navigation system which produces real-time 3-D images of the surgical site during the operation (5-988.3)	661
Treatment with electrical currents, usually directly through the skin (8-650)	615
Distraction of the ends of the bone in a fracture of the lumbar spine (8-412)	387
Surgical implantation of an artificial hip joint (5-820.00)	355
Surgical implantation of artificial knee joint (5-822.g1)	330
Surgical implantation of artificial knee joint (5-822.01)	300
Operation using aids for optical magnification, e.g. magnifying spectacles, operating microscope (5-984)	288
Open surgical procedure on a joint (5-800.4h)	235

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Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

Yes

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 2300

Type of specialist department

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
23	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*
16	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
16	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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