In 2025 the German Medical Association published the second edition of its guide to peer review in medicine. Doctors from outside visit a unit and reflect on its work together with the doctors there. The guide describes their attitude: fachlich-kritisch und zugleich kollegial-wertschätzend, critical on the medical substance and at the same time collegial and appreciative.
The unit requests the review itself. It cannot be ordered, and no sanctions may be derived from it. The guide puts clarification first, ahead of a hasty judgment.