Illness	Number of cases
Dorsalgia - Radiculopathy lumbosacral region (M54.17)	100
Complications of other internal prosthetic devices implants and grafts (T85.1)	53
Disorders of trigeminal nerve - Trigeminal neuralgia (G50.0)	47
Dorsalgia - Cervicalgia (M54.2)	19
Zoster herpes zoster (B02.2)	11
Other mononeuropathies - Other specified mononeuropathies (G58.8)	10
Other joint disorders not elsewhere classified (M25.56)	10
Dorsalgia - Radiculopathy thoracolumbar region (M54.15)	7
Complications of procedures not elsewhere classified (T81.3)	7
Dorsalgia - Radiculopathy lumbar region (M54.16)	5

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Procedures on the spine for the treatment of pain, with the smallest possible incision into the skin and minimal tissue damage (minimally invasive) (5-83a.02)	61
Surgical incision, removal or destruction of the cranial nerves or nerve ganglia within the skull (5-017.2)	46
Other operations on the nerves or nerve ganglions (5-059.cc)	46
Surgical access through the base of the skull (5-011.x)	43
(9-984.7)	35
Other operations on the nerves or nerve ganglions (5-059.81)	31
Other operations on the nerves or nerve ganglions (5-059.cd)	27
Other operations on the nerves or nerve ganglions (5-059.2)	23
(9-984.8)	14
Other operations on the nerves or nerve ganglions (5-059.82)	13

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.	Explanation
CQ28
CQ27
CQ01

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

Number	Group
138	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*
63	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
63	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
Lectureships / teaching posts at universities of applied sciences	Fliedner Fachhochschule Düsseldorf: Dr. Dammann, Dr. Nossek für den Studiengang Physician Assistance (CTA/MAC), Dr. Cordier
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)	In den Fachbereichen der Kardiologie,Pneumologie,Innere Medizin,Gastroenterologie, Hämatologie/Onkologie, Palliativmedizin, Allgemein- und Visceralchirurgie, Gefäßchirurgie, Unfall- und Wiederherstellungschirurgie, Thoraxchirurgie, Geriatrie, Nephrologie, Anästhesiologie, Plast.-/Ästhet. Chirurgie
Participation in multi-centre phase III/IV studies	Prof. Dr. Erhardt; Dr. Sandmann; Dr. Stieglitz; Dr. Kuruc; Dr. Gülker; Dr. Dammann
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities	Universität Witten-Herdecke: Prof. Dr. Welz-Barth; Dr. Gülker; Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf: Prof. Dr. Welz-Barth; Prof. Dr. Erhardt; Dr. Gülker; Dr. Berger; Dr. Nossek; Dr. Sandmann; Dr. Stieglitz; Dr. Kuruc; Dr. Grebe; Dr. Adam; Prof.Dr.Lehnerdt; UK Essen: Prof.Dr.Lehnerdt
Doctoral supervision	Prof. Dr. Welz-Barth; Prof. Dr. Erhardt; Prof. Dr. Lehnerdt; Dr. S. Grebe; Dr. Cordier
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies	Quantifizierung des aventilatorischen Massenflusses; SF6-LCI Messung bei COPD und Lungenfibrose; LCI-Test-Retest Reliabilität (NN); UCH: Registerstudie fotodynamische intramedulläre Stabilisierung des vorderen Beckenrings
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities	Apnoeischen Oxygenierung bei Panendoskopien;Mikrobiom Register Uni Köln;Mitglied Netzwerk genomische Medizin Uni Köln,wiss. Institut Witten-Herd. u UTZ Uni Ddorf,FITT-STEMI u ERCTO Register + Monitoring; RWTH Aachen iHope Studie, QUIPS u LOPSTER Uni Jena,Strahlenther. u Elektrophysiol. Uni/EVK Ddorf
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks	Prof. Dr. Erhardt; Prof. Dr. Welz-Barth; Dr. Stieglitz; Dr. Riethmann; Dr. Kuruc; Dr. Arafkas; Dr. Grebe

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB09	Speech therapist (m/f)	in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Regionalen Therapiezentrum
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)
HB06	Occupational therapist (m/f)
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)
HB21	Geriatric nurse (m/f)
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)
HB18	Emergency paramedics (m/f) (training period 3 years)