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The questions referred to personal qualification, acquisition, quality, and management of prostate MRI, and assessment of the importance of the method.<\/jats:p><jats:p>In total 182 questionnaires were captured from all 10 german postal regions (over 60% of the university hospitals, almost 50% of the maximum care hospitals and approx. 12% of the practices or medical service centers). 43% of the respondents had a Q1 or Q2 quality certificate from the DRG, 10% had a certificate from the BDR, respectively. The majority (90%) criticized inadequate reimbursement of the examination. In 47% MRI cases were discussed in an interdisciplinary tumor board, in 44% case discussions happened rarely, and 12% never had interdisciplinary discussions. On a scale from 0\u2013100 (0%: low; 100%: high) the estimation of the clinical relevance of prostate MRIs received an average of 84% (\u00b1 16%) and the estimated approval by urologists was 75% (\u00b1 21%). Lacking clinical feedback (59%) and clinical information (42%) were perceived as the largest problems.<\/jats:p><jats:p>In this representative survey the respondents estimated multiparametric MRI of the prostate as highly diagnostic and relevant with an increased approval by urologists. There is still a perceived need for continuous professional education of the method for urologists and for more widespread coverage of fusion biopsy. Prostate MRI is currently primarily offered by high volume centers. 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