Inpatient or outpatient rehabilitation after herniated disc surgery? - Setting-specific preferences, participation and outcome of rehabilitation.
<h4>Objective</h4>To examine rehabilitation preferences, participation and determinants for the choice of a certain rehabilitation setting (inpatient vs. outpatient) and setting-specific rehabilitation outcomes.<h4>Methods</h4>The longitudinal observational study referred to...
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| author | Margrit Löbner Melanie Luppa Alexander Konnopka Hans J Meisel Lutz Günther Jürgen Meixensberger Katarina Stengler Matthias C Angermeyer Hans-Helmut König Steffi G Riedel-Heller |
| author_facet | Margrit Löbner Melanie Luppa Alexander Konnopka Hans J Meisel Lutz Günther Jürgen Meixensberger Katarina Stengler Matthias C Angermeyer Hans-Helmut König Steffi G Riedel-Heller |
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| description | <h4>Objective</h4>To examine rehabilitation preferences, participation and determinants for the choice of a certain rehabilitation setting (inpatient vs. outpatient) and setting-specific rehabilitation outcomes.<h4>Methods</h4>The longitudinal observational study referred to 534 consecutive disc surgery patients (18-55 years). Face-to-face baseline interviews took place about 3.6 days after disc surgery during acute hospital stay. 486 patients also participated in a follow-up interview via telephone three months later (dropout-rate: 9%). The following instruments were used: depression and anxiety (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale), pain intensity (numeric analog scale), health-related quality of life (Short Form 36 Health Survey), subjective prognosis of gainful employment (SPE-scale) as well as questions on rehabilitation attendance, return to work, and amount of sick leave days.<h4>Results</h4>The vast majority of patients undergoing surgery for a herniated disc attended a post-hospital rehabilitation treatment program (93%). Thereby two-thirds of these patients took part in an inpatient rehabilitation program (67.9%). Physical, psychological, vocational and health-related quality of life characteristics differed widely before as well as after rehabilitation depending on the setting. Inpatient rehabilitees were significantly older, reported more pain, worse physical quality of life, more anxiety and depression and a worse subjective prognosis of gainful employment before rehabilitation. Pre-rehabilitation differences remained significant after rehabilitation. More than half of the outpatient rehabilitees (56%) compared to only one third of the inpatient rehabilitees (33%) returned to work three months after disc surgery (p<.001).<h4>Conclusion</h4>The results suggest a "pre-selection" of patients with better health status in outpatient rehabilitation. Gaining better knowledge about setting-specific selection processes may help optimizing rehabilitation allocation procedures and improve rehabilitation effects such as return to work. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-95ebd92bdcaf45339ca45db99d360ffe2025-08-20T03:01:11ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032014-01-0193e8920010.1371/journal.pone.0089200Inpatient or outpatient rehabilitation after herniated disc surgery? - Setting-specific preferences, participation and outcome of rehabilitation.Margrit LöbnerMelanie LuppaAlexander KonnopkaHans J MeiselLutz GüntherJürgen MeixensbergerKatarina StenglerMatthias C AngermeyerHans-Helmut KönigSteffi G Riedel-Heller<h4>Objective</h4>To examine rehabilitation preferences, participation and determinants for the choice of a certain rehabilitation setting (inpatient vs. outpatient) and setting-specific rehabilitation outcomes.<h4>Methods</h4>The longitudinal observational study referred to 534 consecutive disc surgery patients (18-55 years). Face-to-face baseline interviews took place about 3.6 days after disc surgery during acute hospital stay. 486 patients also participated in a follow-up interview via telephone three months later (dropout-rate: 9%). The following instruments were used: depression and anxiety (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale), pain intensity (numeric analog scale), health-related quality of life (Short Form 36 Health Survey), subjective prognosis of gainful employment (SPE-scale) as well as questions on rehabilitation attendance, return to work, and amount of sick leave days.<h4>Results</h4>The vast majority of patients undergoing surgery for a herniated disc attended a post-hospital rehabilitation treatment program (93%). Thereby two-thirds of these patients took part in an inpatient rehabilitation program (67.9%). Physical, psychological, vocational and health-related quality of life characteristics differed widely before as well as after rehabilitation depending on the setting. Inpatient rehabilitees were significantly older, reported more pain, worse physical quality of life, more anxiety and depression and a worse subjective prognosis of gainful employment before rehabilitation. Pre-rehabilitation differences remained significant after rehabilitation. More than half of the outpatient rehabilitees (56%) compared to only one third of the inpatient rehabilitees (33%) returned to work three months after disc surgery (p<.001).<h4>Conclusion</h4>The results suggest a "pre-selection" of patients with better health status in outpatient rehabilitation. Gaining better knowledge about setting-specific selection processes may help optimizing rehabilitation allocation procedures and improve rehabilitation effects such as return to work.https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0089200&type=printable |
| spellingShingle | Margrit Löbner Melanie Luppa Alexander Konnopka Hans J Meisel Lutz Günther Jürgen Meixensberger Katarina Stengler Matthias C Angermeyer Hans-Helmut König Steffi G Riedel-Heller Inpatient or outpatient rehabilitation after herniated disc surgery? - Setting-specific preferences, participation and outcome of rehabilitation. PLoS ONE |
| title | Inpatient or outpatient rehabilitation after herniated disc surgery? - Setting-specific preferences, participation and outcome of rehabilitation. |
| title_full | Inpatient or outpatient rehabilitation after herniated disc surgery? - Setting-specific preferences, participation and outcome of rehabilitation. |
| title_fullStr | Inpatient or outpatient rehabilitation after herniated disc surgery? - Setting-specific preferences, participation and outcome of rehabilitation. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Inpatient or outpatient rehabilitation after herniated disc surgery? - Setting-specific preferences, participation and outcome of rehabilitation. |
| title_short | Inpatient or outpatient rehabilitation after herniated disc surgery? - Setting-specific preferences, participation and outcome of rehabilitation. |
| title_sort | inpatient or outpatient rehabilitation after herniated disc surgery setting specific preferences participation and outcome of rehabilitation |
| url | https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0089200&type=printable |
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