Delivery of a quality improvement program in team-based rehabilitation for patients with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases: a mixed methods study.
Anne-Lene Sand-SvartrudGunnhild BerdalGerd Jenny AanerudMaryam AzimiAnne Merete BjørnerudTurid Nygaard DagerCornelia H M van den EndeInger JohansenHelene Lindtvedt ValaasHanne S DagfinrudIngvild KjekenPublished in: Disability and rehabilitation (2023)
Leaders and clinicians should discuss efforts to ensure confident and qualified rehabilitation delivery at the levels of individual providers, teams, and institutions, and pay equal attention to each component in the process from admission to follow-up.IMPLICATIONS FOR REHABILITATIONQuality in rehabilitation should be characterized by a continuous and coordinated process from goal setting to follow-up.To improve the quality, sufficient involvement of next of kin and external services is needed.Clinicians may need training to build confidence in motivational interviewing, action- and coping planning, feedback on progress, and follow-up.Leaders should organize education sessions, optimize schedules, insert standardized outcome measures, and facilitate collaboration across levels of care and services.