UNASSIGNED: Background and aims Quality of care (QoC) has gained increased attention in @entity8787 . A better QoC has, historically, been linked to improved treatment outcomes. Even so, factors of equal importance to @entity1 may be quality of life (QoL), @entity1 -physician communication and access to care. Recent surveys suggest that @entity8787 care in Europe is suboptimal. Methods @entity1 were recruited from nine hospitals in the south-eastern and western part of Norway as a part of an observational, multicenter study In addition to clinical and socio-demographic factors; a purposely designed 26 item questionnaire was used to quantify aspects related to @entity8787 care, including QoC. Moreover, the Fatigue Questionnaire (FQ) was used to investigate fatigue. Results In total, 411 @entity1 were included. Of these, 231 were diagnosed with @entity1050 and 180 with UC. Furthermore, 86.1% (354/411) were satisfied with the quality of @entity8787 follow-up and only 4.1% (17/411) were dissatisfied. Most dissatisfaction was related to: lack of focus on personal relations (18.2%), HRQoL (15.1%), general practitioner knowledge of @entity8787 (13.9%), ability to talk about important topics (7.8%), and hospital discharge communication (9.4%). Higher age and longer disease duration was associated with improved QoC scores in both UC and @entity1050 . Fatigue was associated with decreased QoC scores in both diagnoses. Conclusions @entity1 are satisfied with quality of care in @entity8787 . However, communication seems to be an important area of improvement - not only related to @entity1 -physician communication, but also to transitional communication between different health-care levels.

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@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['Patients', 'patients', 'patient'] @entity8787 :: ('MESH:C535541', 'Disease') :: ['IBD'] @entity1050 :: ('MESH:D006223', 'Disease') :: ['CD']
@entity1 :: (9606,Species) :: ['Patients']
