Day-Care vs. Inpatient Psychosomatic Rehabilitation Distinguishing Attributes of Patients and Effectiveness of Treatment in Comparison

摘要

Background and objective: The present study compares patient characteristics and treatment outcome of 138 patients from a day-care psychosomatic rehabilitation and 540 patients from an inpatient psychosomatic rehabilitation. It was analyzed if patients differ in demographic-, clinical- and socio-medical characteristics, if there are different treatment effects between the 2 types of rehabilitations and if other patient characteristics can predict success of treatment.