Letter on “Validation of the Brief International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF) Core Set for Hand Conditions”

Do existing patient-report activity outcome measures accurately reflect day-to-day arm use following adult traumatic brachial plexus injury?

“…BPI may affect the whole upper limb, which impacts all joints required to place and hold the hand for day-to-day use. While titled a Hand Core Set, the activities classified to CCS-HC domains require distal and whole arm use (table II) (29,30). However, adults with traumatic BPI and expert clinicians identified a small number of activities (n = 6) classified to an ICF domain (d335 -Producing nonverbal messages) not included in the CCS-HC.…”