Modern practice management: What information does the Patient Care Quality Score (PCQS) provide to GPs and specialists?

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What it is about

When measuring patient satisfaction, only the key performance indicator “Patient Care Quality Score (PCQS)” provides a realistic picture in comparison with classical methods such as school grade scaling.

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Mastering the medical mindshift: The label of “difficult patient” arises mainly from a lack of communication skills

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What it’s all about

Every doctor and every medical assistant knows the small negative events that, to a greater or lesser extent, pervade everyday practice. Often they are related to patients who are then labelled “difficult” and with whom this stigma is forever associated. But the assessment is often made hastily and the real problem lies at a completely different level. Being aware of this and taking countermeasures can decisively improve the quality of work.

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Organisation in the doctor’s practice: 50 seconds are not the problem

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What it’s all about

In comparison, the creation of an electronic certificate of incapacity to work (eAU) takes 50 seconds more time than processing it via the “classical way”. General practitioners and specialists regard this additional organisational effort as a clear obstacle to their productivity. But the real problem lies somewhere else.

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Mastering the medical mindshift: Being busy has nothing to do with efficiency and productivity

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Work pressure, stress and demotivation: in many GP and specialist practices, these sensations are daily routine. But this does not have to be the case.

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Practice management: Achieving your goals with key figures

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What it’s all about

Smoothly functioning practice management is the central starting point for achieving all conceivable practice goals: reducing work pressure, increasing efficiency and productivity, further improving patient satisfaction, increasing success or securing the future. But how do practice owners succeed in aligning their management in this way, even in the context of dynamically changing working conditions?

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Mastering the medical mindshift: The anti-Eris strategy

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What it’s about

Conflicts between medical professionals have fundamentally destructive effects on the quality of care and work of GP and specialist practices and are detrimental to the overall success of the practice, especially if they remain unresolved for a longer period of time. The entrepreneurial owners of high-performance practices (HPPs) therefore see conflict prevention and curation as their personal task and take care of the issue professionally, both preventively and curatively. With them, Eris, the goddess of conflict in Greek mythology, has little chance of success.

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Mastering the medical mindshift: Why leadership is so important

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What it’s all about

Many established practice owners are convinced that, due to their size, they do not need any special leadership measures, since the interaction of the staff results natively from the tasks to be done and the staff already know how to help themselves when problems and questions arise. A serious mistake.

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Mastering the medical mindshift: deficits in practice organisation are primarily a problem of personnel management

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What it’s all about

Excessive waiting times, uncoordinated procedures, poor telephone accessibility, hectic consultations with doctors – deficits in practice organisation are the number one point of criticism when patients are asked about their satisfaction with medical practices. are asked. Doctors and staff are also negatively affected. About 2/3 of the problems identified in practice analyses come from the area of organisational design. Doctors and their staff also suffer from this stress, anger and demotivation are the consequences of unresolved organisational deficits.

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