[A German Survey of Goal Setting and Goal Agreement in Medical Rehabilitation].

Aim: To describe the current practice of goal setting and goal agreement in the Medical rehabilitation in Germany.

Methodology: Rehabilitation centers contracted by the German Pension Insurance and covering all indications were approached by a questionnaire survey.

Results: The percentage of questionnaires returned was 48.

[Collaborative Goal Setting in Rehabilitation (ParZivar II): Evaluation of an Intervention in Patients with Chronic Back Pain].

Objective: The "ParZivar II" project had 2 aims: optimization of the "ParZivar I" intervention by individual coaching of physicians, and evaluation of the optimized intervention.

Methods: The intervention was evaluated in a sequential control group design in 4 rehabilitation facilities with 3 measurement points. A total of n=279 patients with chronic low back pain participated in the study.

[Evaluation of a collaborative goal setting intervention in patients with chronic back pain].

Background And Objective: Although setting rehabilitation goals is considered to be a core rehabilitation process, in actual rehabilitation practice there is a considerable need for improvement with respect to consistent goal orientation. The objective of the PARZIVAR project was therefore to develop an intervention for participative goal setting in medical rehabilitation. This article reports the results of the evaluation of the PARZIVAR intervention in patients with chronic back pain.

[DGRW-Update: musculo-skeletal diseases].

Background: Orthopedic rehabilitation is a major entity in rehabilitation. Due to coming demographic changes and its challenges concerning mobility of elderly patients it will increase. The criticism on orthopedic rehabilitation in Germany focuses on its missing evidence in therapeutic eff ectiveness especially in chronic low back pain.

[Goal setting in inpatient medical rehabilitation: exploring the current practice].

Objective: Goal setting is regarded as a key element in the rehabilitation process. Information about current goal setting practice is limited. However, there is potential for further improvement, e.