Illness	Number of cases
Coxarthrosis arthrosis of hip (M16.1)	367
Gonarthrosis arthrosis of knee (M17.1)	195
Dorsalgia (M54.4)	147
Other spondylopathies (M48.06)	125
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.1)	115
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.2)	61
Dorsalgia - Radiculopathy lumbar region (M54.16)	48
Dorsalgia - Low back pain (M54.5)	47
Osteoporosis with pathological fracture (M80.08)	47
Fracture of femur (S72.10)	41

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Function-orientated physical exercises and uses (8-561.1)	1.521
Comprehensive pain control for acute pain (8-919)	864
Surgical incision into bony tissue because of sterile or infected contaminated bone disease (5-780.4x)	517
Operation with the smallest possible incision into the skin and minimal tissue damage (minimally invasive) (5-986.x)	415
Surgical implantation of an artificial hip joint (5-820.00)	405
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the spine and spinal cord without contrast medium (3-802)	352
Regional pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a space in the spinal canal (epidural space) (8-910)	306
Surgical transplantation or transposition of bone tissue (5-784.0d)	202
Operation using a navigation system which produces real-time 3-D images of the surgical site during the operation (5-988.3)	166
(9-984.7)	139

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 2300

Type of specialist department

Main Department

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Services

Quality

External comparative quality assurance

Further information

External quality assurance according to state law

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
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*
7	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
0	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
Student training (clinical traineeship / internship year)

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB19	Nursing professionals
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)
HB03	Physical therapist / physiotherapist (m/f)
HB20	Nursing professional B. Sc.	Kooperation Katholische Hochschule Mainz
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)	Kooperation Winterbergkliniken Saarbrücken
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)	In Kooperation mit Klinikum Saarbrücken.
HB05	Medical technical radiology assistant (MTRA) (m/f)	Vergabe von Stipendium.
HB10	Midwife (m/f)	In Kooperation mit der Universitätsklinik Homburg