Providing patient progress feedback and clinical support tools to therapists: is the therapeutic process of patients on-track to recovery enhanced in psychosomatic in-patient therapy under the conditions of routine practice?

•The monitoring and feedback software OQ-Analyst was applied in psychosomatic clinics.•Therapists received weekly feedback for patients randomized into the feedback group.•Feedback consisted of patient progress feedback and clinical support tools (CST).•The effects of this kind of feedback were explored for in-patients on-track to recovery.•Only a very small time-limited feedback effect was found for on-track in-patients.