Illness	Number of cases
Dorsalgia (M54.4)	237
Other spondylopathies (M48.06)	90
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.1)	30
Spondylosis (M47.87)	28
Spondylosis (M47.86)	21
Superficial injury of abdomen lower back and pelvis (S30.0)	17
Other spondylopathies - Spinal stenosis cervical region (M48.02)	16
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.2)	14
Spondylosis - Other spondylosis with radiculopathy lumbar region (M47.26)	11
Dislocation sprain and strain of joints and ligaments at neck level (S13.4)	11

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic around a nerve root or nerve close to the spine (8-914.12)	160
Other operations on the spine (5-839.60)	119
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the spine and spinal cord without contrast medium (3-802)	118
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.00)	117
Computed tomography (CT) of the spine and the spinal cord without contrast medium (3-203)	110
Surgical removal of diseased intervertebral disc tissue (5-831.2)	80
Surgical removal of diseased bone or joint tissue in the spine (5-832.4)	80
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.01)	78
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a joint of the spine (8-917.13)	77
Surgical removal of diseased intervertebral disc tissue (5-831.0)	76

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Department key: 3755

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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.	Explanation
CQ31

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

Number	Group
30	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*
30	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
30	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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