[North Rhine-Westphalia Scientific Rehabilitation Group--"future strategies for rehabilitation"].

This Northrine-Westfalian integrated research system in rehabilitation aims at the development of future strategies for medical rehabilitation. The well known deficits of rehabilitation have led to different complementary projects. These comprise research on the lack of evidence in efficacy, predictors for outcomes, international cooperation, university related curricula in training, implementation of health economics and disease management, and finally the need for an actual adaptation of social legislation. The research topics have been transformed into key themes which will be coherently integrated by additional external expert knowledge acquired in workshops organized by a task force group for the development of future strategies.