Title {1}	Digital rehabilitation care planning for people with chronic diseases (RehaPro-SERVE): study protocol for a German multicentre randomised controlled trial
Trial registration {2a and 2b}.	DRKS-German Clinical Trials Register, DRKS0 00242 07. Registered on 22 March 2021. All items from the World Health Organization Trial Registration Data Set for this protocol can be found in Additional file 1.
Protocol version {3}	Protocol 3.0 04/07/2022
Funding {4}	German Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (BMAS) (grant number: 661R0053K1). Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales (BMAS) Wilhelmstraße 49 10,117 Berlin Germany (+ 49) 3018 5270 info@bmas.bund.de
Author details {5a}	1 Department of Primary Care, University of Marburg, Karl-von-Frisch-Straße 4, 35,032 Marburg, Germany 2 Hospital Sonnenblick, German Pension Insurance, Amöneburger Straße 1–6, 35,043 Marburg, Germany 3 Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Applied Sciences Central Hesse, Wiesenstraße 14, 35,390 Giessen, Germany
Name and contact information for the trial sponsor {5b}	Deutsche Rentenversicherung Hessen PD Dr. Ulf Seifart Amöneburger Str. 1–6 35,043 Marburg Germany (+ 49) 6421 295 501
Role of sponsor {5c}	The sponsor had no influence on the study design, writing of this article and the decision to submit it for publication.