The ICF as a way to specify goals and to assess the outcome of physiotherapeutic interventions in the acute hospital.

Abstract

Analysis showed that the ICF can be used to record precise information on patients' functioning in the acute hospital. Typical impairments and restrictions, intervention goals and trajectories of functioning could be documented. The qualifiers used in our clinical example were sensitive to change. Definitions of qualifiers, however, should be the subject of further research.

Towards ICF implementation in menopause healthcare: a systematic review of ICF application in Switzerland

“…In contrast to one of the most recent literature reviews in 2009 [92], most papers identified for this review discussed the active implementation of the ICF and not only the theoretical framework. Furthermore, research has focused on the development of core sets [10,12,20,21,29,34,35,40,50,54,56,81,[84][85][86] and on the application of the ICF concept to condition-specific management [8,9,16,26,58,60,71,74,75,83]. This finding supports the increasing acceptance of the ICF and improvement of its classification.…”

“…The articles were published in 39 different scientific journals including Swiss Medical Weekly [27,78]. The majority of articles were published in the Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine (n = 10; 12.0%) [37,49,52,59,64,71,74,76,79,89] or American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (n = 9; 10.8%) [11,14,17,18,30,32,39,46,65]. The 83 articles identified were first-authored by 47 different authors of whom two, Felix Gradinger [19,41,50,51,55] and Reuben Escorpizo [24,28,30,34,42,70], first-authored at least five articles (6.0%).…”

“…Twelve (34.3%) studies were multicentre trials[15,25,35,41,47,52,55,63,72,73,80,81]. Furthermore, two retrospective studies (5.7%)[68,78], one prospective study (2.9%)[71] and one case-control study (2.9%)[15] were identified (table 2). In most studies (n = 29, 82.9%) the ICF was used to code, for example, patients' information from interviews…”