Tailored clinical work related support for patients with gastro intestinal cancer

Intervention: tailored support for work- related problems
Because work- related problems could differ in severity, the intervention is split into three types of supports namely, support A, support B and support C. Within these different supports the health care discipline that provide the supportive care is different. In support A that will be an oncological nurse, in support B an occupational physician (specialized in RTW of oncological patients) and in support C there will be a multidisciplinary team (including at least an oncological nurse, the treating physician and an oncological occupational physician) that discuss the work- related problems.
Patients are referred to a tailored support in the intervention on the basis of factors that are scored in patient questionnaires within the following categories; clinical history, work, work limitations and health status.
Primary outcome(s): The primary outcome parameter in this study is return- to- work (RTW).
RTW is defined as time to partial or full RTW, meaning the number of calendar days between first day sick leave and first day at work. The patient must have returned to work (part time or full time) for at least 4 weeks successively.
Study Design: Randomized controlled trial, Open (masking not used), Active, Parallel