Illness	Number of cases
Dorsalgia (M54.4)	788
Other spondylopathies (M48.06)	497
Gonarthrosis arthrosis of knee (M17.1)	458
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.1)	384
Other disorders of muscle - Contracture of muscle unspecified site (M62.40)	383
Shoulder lesions (M75.1)	331
Acquired deformities of fingers and toes (M20.1)	327
Coxarthrosis arthrosis of hip (M16.1)	308
Dislocation sprain and strain of joints and ligaments of knee (S83.53)	270
Type 2 diabetes mellitus not insulin dependent from the start (E11.74)	172

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Comprehensive pain control for acute pain (8-919)	2.332
Operation using aids for optical magnification, e.g. magnifying spectacles, operating microscope (5-984)	1.394
Surgical fixation of the bone fragments, e.g. in fractures, using devices such as screws or plates (5-786.0)	1.128
Treatment of pain by the introduction of a liquid anaesthetic around other nerves outside the brain and spinal cord (8-915)	1.104
Surgical removal of diseased bone or joint tissue in the spine (5-832.4)	943
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the spine and spinal cord without contrast medium (3-802)	895
Treatment by injecting a medicine into an organ or tissue, or removal of excess fluid (effusion) e.g. from the joints (8-020.x)	892
Revision operations (5-983)	770
Other operations on the spine (5-839.60)	763
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.00)	745

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

Yes

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 1500 , 1513 , 1516 , 1519 , 1523 , 1536 , 1551 , 3618 , 3700 , 3753 , 3755

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

Bezeichnung
Teilnahme externe Qualitätssicherung	2

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
86	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*
86	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
44	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 colleges and universities
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Participation in multi-centre phase III/IV studies
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks
Doctoral supervision