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    The Martini Principle: Redefining quality in prostate cancer surgery

    Outcomes of prostate cancer surgery vary sharply. Is that inevitable? No.

    4min
    Philipp Grätzel von Grätz
    Published on 22. September 2020

    Hartwig Huland and his team at Hamburg’s Martini-Klinik consistently reach such impressively good results that hospital managers from all over the world pilgrimage to Hamburg these days. And here is how they did it.

    Specialize.

    The high-volume clinic carries out almost 2,500 radical prostatectomies every year.

    Know the results of what you do.

    Embrace innovation.

    Focus on the patient.

    AI-powered guidance systems belong to the age of precision medicine.

    Be a faculty, not a hierarchy.

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    By Philipp Grätzel von Grätz

    Philipp Grätzel von Grätz lives and works as a freelance medical journalist in Berlin. His specialties are digitalization, technology, and cardiovascular therapy.

    1. The statements by Siemens Healthineers customers described herein are based on results that were achieved in the customer’s unique setting. Since there is no “typical” hospital and many variables exist (e.g., hospital size, case mix, level of IT adoption) there can be no guarantee that other customers will achieve the same results.