Digital rehabilitation care planning for people with chronic diseases (RehaPro-SERVE): study protocol for a German multicentre randomised controlled trial.

Background: Chronic diseases are a significant and growing problem of our time. They impair the ability to work and increase the risk of early retirement. To support the return to work, rehabilitation services can be applied for in Germany.

Lessons learned from implementing a digital rehabilitation care planning platform to improve care access for patients with work disability: qualitative process evaluation of the RehaPro-SERVE study.

Background: Inpatient rehabilitation therapies can be applied for in Germany by patients of working age to support their return to work. However, there are some problems that impede an easy and uncomplicated application process. An interdisciplinary case management approach for rehabilitation care planning was developed to facilitate the access to rehabilitation.

Collaborative advance care planning in palliative care: a randomised controlled trial.

Objective: An effective tool for establishing concordant end-of-life (EOL) care in patients with cancer is advance care planning (ACP). However, various barriers, including psychological obstacles, hamper the access to ACP. Therefore, a new conceptual model combining a psycho-oncological approach with structured ACP was developed.

Neurooncological Rehabilitation in Diffuse Gliomas.

Background: With the further advancement of surgical technology and modern tumor-targeted treatment strategies, longer survival rates can be achieved in diffuse gliomas. Pre- and post-therapeutic physical and cognitive deficits are frequently associated with gliomas. The clinical impact of physical therapy and rehabilitation on neurooncological disorders has not been analyzed consecutively.

Factors associated with return-to-work outcomes in inpatient rehabilitation - a systematic scoping review.

Inpatient rehabilitation is common in Germany to improve return-to-work outcomes. The objective of this systematic scoping review was to identify factors associated with return-to-work outcomes in musculoskeletal, psychological and oncological health conditions to improve tailoring of rehabilitation therapies. A search was completed in Embase, Medline, PsycInfo and AMED until May 2023 for articles investigating inpatient rehabilitation including working-age patients with oncological, musculoskeletal, or psychological diseases using a quantitative design and reporting factors associated with return-to-work outcomes.