Why GPs and specialists choose to undertake a practice management benchmarking exercise

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What it is all about

While business comparisons usually serve to assess the economic situation of medical practices, a practice management business comparison offers general practitioners and specialists the opportunity to compare the type, intensity and effects of their practice management with the representative conditions of their specialist group and the best practice standard. This concept opens up a multitude of possible applications.

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Managing the medical mindshift: Laying the foundations with ratios

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What it’s all about

In order to be able to deal adequately with the changes taking place in their working environment, general practitioners and specialists primarily need a solid practice management foundation. A simple system of ratios ensures solidity.

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Managing the medical mindshift: Example of service orientation

What it’s all about

Doctors of the upcoming generation of physicians have a general idea of their work in general practitioner and specialist care that differs significantly from that of their established colleagues. For example, they are proactively looking for new ways to retain and attract patients. One starting point here is to focus on the topic of “patient service”.

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Practice management business comparisons: Too few dentists use holistic time management principles

What it’s all about

“Where has my time gone?” Not only do dentists ask themselves this question when setting up a new practice, during takeovers or in the context of mergers, but “seasoned” colleagues also complain about a lack of time – as practice management business comparisons show. This cannot always be avoided, but it does not have to be a permanent condition if one observes some basic rules of managing time.

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Practice management: Avoiding stress, demotivation and burn-out through best practice alignment

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What it’s all about

Practice comparisons show that in the personal cause analysis for permanent stress for general practitioners and specialists, external influences in the form of bureaucratisation, health policy regulations or increased patient demands are primarily responsible. However, a precise analysis of the management of the practice shows that this is where the real cause lies.

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Factsheet: Practice management KPI in orthopaedic practice

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What it’s all about

With the help of practice management business comparisons, it is not only possible to determine the strengths, weaknesses, threats, opportunities and possibilities for improvement for individual businesses, but also to examine practice management in specialist groups, among other things, in cross-sectional analyses.

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Laboratory values of practice management: what the Teamwork Quality Score (TQS) informs GPs and specialists about

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What it’s all about

Laboratory values are an essential basis for medical patient care. But professional practice management is also inconceivable without their business counterpart, the key performance indicators.

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General practitioners and specialists: The best practice score shows when and what to change in practice management

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What it’s all about

With the help of the benchmarking technique, it is possible to determine how urgent improvements are for practice management in GP practices and where the starting points for this are.

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