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With the specialist campaign, we set ourselves the goal of comparing medical care in Germany, especially in rural regions. We wanted to highlight regional differences and show which areas are particularly lacking in specialists. Due to the emotionality associated with a sensitive topic such as medical care, we specifically wrote to regional media from areas that scored particularly well or particularly poorly according to our survey.

To ensure that the data we used was appropriate to the topic, we used the physician demand planning survey of the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (Kassenärztliche Bundesvereinigung; KBV) as the basis for our study. The KBV survey takes into account regional characteristics, such as the co-supply of cities for surrounding areas or the average age of patients. This ensures that the data on the respective region is as true and meaningful as possible. Nevertheless, the reality in the respective regions can vary and dynamic circumstances can lead to actual availability being different from that in the data used.