Table 2

Primary and secondary outcomes

Primary outcomesSecondary outcomes

  • Physical and mental quality of life/subjective health*

  • Physical functioning*

  • Social participation*

  • Pain (orthopaedic and rheumatologic patients only)

  • Blood pressure (cardiac patients only)

  • Asthma control (patients with asthma only)

  • Dyspnoea (patients with COPD only)

  • Depression and anxiety symptoms (psychosomatic rehabilitation patients only)

  • Return to work* (after 3 months)

  • Depression and anxiety symptoms†

  • Self-management*

  • Coping with pain (orthopaedic and rheumatologic patients only)

  • Fear of progression (patients with cancer only)

  • Lung function (patients with asthma and COPD only)

  • Functional capacity (patients with COPD only)

  • HbA1c (patients with diabetes mellitus and metabolic disease only)

  • Subjective work ability*

  • *Outcomes will be collected for all disease groups.

  • †Outcome will be collected for all disease groups except for ‘psychosomatic rehabilitation’.

  • COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; HbA1c, haemoglobin A1c.