Die Rehabilitation
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Work-related interventions have become an integral part of medical rehabilitation programmes on behalf of the German Pension Fund. Studies showed concordantly that work-related medical rehabilitation measures should focus on patients with extensive work-related problems. Therefore the identification of such problems has to be an integral part of effective work-related interventions in medical rehabilitation. Adequate screening instruments do exist, but publications regarding their psychometric quality across indications are still missing. ⋯ SIMBO-C can be characterised as a valid and reliable instrument for identification of patients with extensive work-related problems. This study in particular outlines the ability of the SIMBO-C to make predictions about problematic developments, which qualifies it as an instrument to be implemented at an early point of time in the rehabilitation process.