National study for multidisciplinary outpatient oncological rehabilitation: online survey to support revised quality and performance criteria.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

More and more people survive cancer, but the disease and its treatment often lead to impairment. Multidisciplinary ambulatory oncological rehabilitation (OR) programs have thus been developed. SW!SS REHA, the organization of major Swiss rehabilitation clinics, has defined ambulatory OR quality criteria for its members (about 50% of the Swiss rehabilitation capacity). However, SW!SS REHA criteria are not fully implemented and/or interpreted differently by different specialties or in different linguistic regions in Switzerland. The aim of our study was to carry out an online survey of existing outpatient programs to define quality criteria for an ideal OR program in Switzerland.

Methods

A mixed methods approach was used for the survey-qualitative and quantitative. The

SUBMITTER: Dorey G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8163662 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature