Illness	Number of cases
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.1)	113
Spondylosis (M47.87)	53
Other spondylopathies (M48.06)	44
Other deforming dorsopathies - Spondylolisthesis lumbar region (M43.16)	29
Dorsalgia (M54.4)	28
Osteoporosis with pathological fracture (M80.88)	21
Spinal osteochondrosis - Adult osteochondrosis of spine lumbar region (M42.16)	20
Osteoporosis with pathological fracture (M80.08)	18
Dorsalgia - Radiculopathy lumbosacral region (M54.17)	15
Other spondylopathies - Spinal stenosis cervical region (M48.02)	11

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Operation using aids for optical magnification, e.g. magnifying spectacles, operating microscope (5-984)	248
Other operations on the spine (5-839.60)	113
Surgical removal of diseased bone or joint tissue in the spine (5-832.4)	101
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.10)	100
Surgical removal of diseased intervertebral disc tissue (5-831.2)	92
Treatment procedures requiring dyes (5-989)	80
Surgical removal of diseased bone or joint tissue in the spine (5-832.0)	70
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.20)	64
Surgical removal of diseased intervertebral disc tissue (5-831.0)	61
Surgical fixation of vertebrae using devices such as screws or plates (5-835.9)	60

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 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
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
CQ25
CQ27

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

Number	Group
73	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*
42	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
42	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
Project-related cooperation with colleges and universities
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)
Participation in multi-centre phase III/IV studies
Lectureships / teaching posts at universities of applied sciences
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities
Doctoral supervision
Editors of scientific journals/textbooks

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)
HB10	Midwife (m/f)
HB18	Emergency paramedics (m/f) (training period 3 years)	Parktische Anteile in Kooperation mit der Stadt Köln