title: [Attitude of established physicians to medical rehabilitation: an empirical study of the access to rehabilitation problem].
abstract: Office-practice physicians' attitudes towards and knowledge of available medical rehabilitation benefits are crucial influences concerning the manner and extent to which they pursue their patients' access to rehabilitation. Covering some 1200 office-practice physicians in the catchment area of a workers pension insurance agency, LVA Oldenburg-Bremen, the present questionnaire study is directed at a closer analysis of these influences. The findings, for one, indicate great diversity of overall approval of rehabilitation measures, for the other they however also reveal varying judgements of the relevancy of rehabilitation benefits for the various disease groups. Suggestions are set out on the basis of our findings on how access to rehabilitation could be upgraded.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Psychotherapie und Medizinische Psychologie, Universität Würzburg.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Vogel
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Petermann
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Schillegger
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Schmidt
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Seger
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008511:Medicine; D008875:Middle Aged; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D012046:Rehabilitation / Q000523:psychology; D013038:Specialization; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014942:Workers' Compensation