Importance of a patient-centred approach in ensuring quality of post-fracture rehabilitation for working aged people: A qualitative study of therapists' and patients' perspectives.

Background: Quality in rehabilitation is important for recovery and return to work for people at working age, who sustain fractures, but there is limited information about what constitutes quality in rehabilitation.

Objective: To identify factors that therapists and patients define as quality in the rehabilitation process for working population after simple or multiple fractures.

Methods: The study is a qualitative study based on grounded theory approach with semi-structured interviews conducted individually or in focus groups.

Quality in rehabilitation after a working age person has sustained a fracture: partnership contributes to continuity.

Objective: Research in quality of rehabilitation has mostly concerned patients with chronic diseases, but the aim of the present study was to investigate what constitutes good quality in rehabilitation after a person has sustained a fracture at working age, from both patients' and therapists' perspectives.

Participants: Seven patients with bone fracture, aged 32-60 years, and 23 occupational therapists and physiotherapists from hospitals, municipalities and private practices in Denmark.

Methods: Qualitative study with in-depth semi-structured interviews.