Illness	Number of cases
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.1)	58
Dorsalgia (M54.4)	28
Other spondylopathies (M48.06)	26
Other spondylopathies - Spinal stenosis cervical region (M48.02)	21
Other dorsopathies not elsewhere classified (M53.22)	15
Cervical disc disorders (M50.1)	10
Benign neoplasm of other and unspecified sites (D36.1)	not specified
Neoplasm of uncertain or unknown behaviour of meninges - Neoplasm of uncertain behavior of spinal meninges (D42.1)	not specified
Neoplasm of uncertain or unknown behaviour of brain and central nervous system - Neoplasm of uncertain behavior of spinal cord (D43.4)	not specified
Paraplegia and tetraplegia (G82.13)	not specified

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Patient education (9-500.0)	97
Operation using aids for optical magnification, e.g. magnifying spectacles, operating microscope (5-984)	93
Surgical access to the lumbar spine, sacrum or coccyx (5-032.10)	61
Computer-assisted analysis of the images with 3D-analysis (3-990)	54
Surgical removal of diseased intervertebral disc tissue (5-831.2)	52
Other operations on the spine (5-839.60)	52
Surgical fixation of vertebrae using devices such as screws or plates (5-835.9)	48
Surgical removal of diseased intervertebral disc tissue (5-831.9)	44
Computed tomography (CT) of the spine and the spinal cord without contrast medium (3-203)	41
Intensive care monitoring of respiration, the heart and the circulation without measurement of the pressure in the pulmonary artery and in the right atrium of the heart (8-930)	41

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Yes

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

Bezeichnung
Teilnahme externe Qualitätssicherung	2
Bezeichnung
Teilnahme externe Qualitätssicherung	2
Bezeichnung
Teilnahme externe Qualitätssicherung	0

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
50	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*
45	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
41	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)	-
Initiation and management of uni-centric/multi-centric clinical/scientific studies	-
Lectureships / teaching posts at colleges and universities	-
Doctoral supervision	-