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- Title
Outpatient multidisciplinary cancer rehabilitation in Switzerland: a status assessment.
- Authors
Dehler, Anna; Cabaset, Sophie; Schmid, Margareta; Schneider-Mörsch, Beate; Sperisen, Nicolas; Rohrmann, Sabine
- Abstract
Aim: This study aimed to assess the situation of outpatient multidisciplinary cancer rehabilitation in Switzerland as of March 2018. Subject and methods: Seventeen programmes providing outpatient cancer rehabilitation were identified; 12 in the German-speaking, 4 in the French-speaking and 1 in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland. Structure, organisation, type of programme and details on therapies offered were assessed. Difference by language regions and the status of the programme (running vs in development) were examined in a descriptive analysis. Results: Centres in the German- and Italian-speaking parts had mostly individual modular programmes with a longer duration (median: 12 weeks) and low intensity (median: 2.5–3 h per week). The French-speaking part had standard programmes with a shorter duration (median: 9 weeks) but higher intensity (median: 5.5 h per week) and a higher number of obligatory modules a patient must attend (median: 2 instead of 1). The language regions also showed differences in duration of therapies, communication, indications and screening instruments. Conclusion: Outpatient cancer rehabilitation in Switzerland is characterized by a wide range of programmes. These differences between language regions, as well as between the individual programmes, highlight important variables that may influence the efficiency and the quality of the different programmes; understanding these variables could lead to improvements in cancer rehabilitation in Switzerland.
- Subjects
SWITZERLAND; TREATMENT duration; LANGUAGE &; languages; HEALTH care teams; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; COMMUNICATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; DATA analysis software; CANCER patient rehabilitation
- Publication
Journal of Public Health (09431853), 2023, Vol 31, Issue 5, p807
- ISSN
0943-1853
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10389-021-01589-9