The vicious circle of externalisation in German outpatient care

What it’s all about

In outpatient care in Germany, the trend has manifested itself of attributing problems that affect general practitioners and specialists in private practice monocausally to external factors such as bureaucratisation, digitalisation or a shortage of specialists. This externalisation of problem solutions, often accompanied by a monocausal argument, has numerous negative effects on the development of progress in outpatient patient care.

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