Illness	Number of cases
Other spondylopathies (M48.06)	227
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.1)	190
Dorsalgia (M54.4)	54
Cervical disc disorders (M50.1)	14
Other spondylopathies - Spinal stenosis cervical region (M48.02)	12
Osteoporosis with pathological fracture (M80.88)	10
Intracranial injury (S06.5)	6
Other dorsopathies not elsewhere classified - Cervicobrachial syndrome (M53.1)	4
Fracture of lumbar spine and pelvis (S32.03)	4
Complications of procedures not elsewhere classified (T81.4)	4

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Operation using aids for optical magnification, e.g. magnifying spectacles, operating microscope (5-984)	430
Computed tomography (CT) of the spine and the spinal cord without contrast medium (3-203)	310
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.00)	308
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.10)	276
Computer-assisted analysis of the images with 3D-analysis (3-990)	248
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.20)	239
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the spine and spinal cord without contrast medium (3-802)	165
Other operations on the spine (5-839.60)	162
Surgical removal of diseased intervertebral disc tissue (5-831.2)	148
Surgical removal of diseased intervertebral disc tissue (5-831.0)	85

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 1523

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	1

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.	Explanation
CQ01

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

Number	Group
75	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*
58	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
58	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
Lectureships / teaching posts at universities of applied sciences
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

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)
HB18	Emergency paramedics (m/f) (training period 3 years)