This is the first study to evaluate a quality assurance and feedback tool with regard to its practical feasibility in routine care and within the German health insurance system. This paper summarizes the evaluators' perspective on issues regarding the representativeness of the sample, consequences for therapy length and central assumptions and concepts of the project. The evaluation team comments on the paper "Pilot project of the Techniker-Krankenkasse - A comment from the perspective of the academic advisory council".
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