Pfaff: ‚Ideas are not enough to achieve success‘

Abstract

Two presentations in particular gave rise to heated, sometimes very controversial, but therefore also interesting discussions during the MVF Congress ‚The impact of the pandemic on healthcare‘. The first was the statement by Prof Dieter Köhler, MD, former Medical Director of Kloster Grafschaft Hospital, that uncritical adherence to the S3 guideline ‚Recommendations for inpatient treatment of patients with Covid-19‘ had led to an unnecessarily high number of corona deaths during the pandemic. The second was the presentation by Prof Dr Holger Pfaff, Head of the Institute for Medical Sociology, Health Services Research and Rehabilitation Science at the University of Cologne, who presented a new approach to how serious decisions can still be made on an uncertain data basis.