What it’s all about

GPs and specialists in Germany traditionally have a distanced or even hostile attitude towards business management methods and instruments. In this context, there is also talk of “metricnorance”, formed from the words “metric” and “ignorance”. The term refers to the ignorance or deliberate disregard of important metrics that provide insights into what is happening in practice. In doing so, they overlook the immense potential for analysis and organisation that they are foregoing and which could help them to drastically improve not only the quality of their patient care, but also their own working conditions. The following example describes what practice owners are foregoing with a metricnorance mindset.

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