OBJECTIVE To identify candidate categories for International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) Core Sets for the reporting and clinical measurement of functioning in older patients in early post-acute rehabilitation facilities. DESIGN Prospective multi-centre cohort study. PATIENTS Older patients receiving rehabilitation interventions in early post-acute rehabilitat...

PURPOSE Develop an International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) Code Set, useful in goal oriented rehabilitation of a study population of children with chronic disabilities. METHOD A triangulation of methods, using an interview to identify the main needs and goals of the study population, and a questionnaire to identify the main problems, with a registration of the...

OBJECTIVE To identify relevant aspects of functioning, disability, and contextual factors for adults with hearing loss (HL) from hearing health professional perspective summarized using the ICF classification as reference tool. DESIGN Internet-based cross-sectional survey using open-ended questions. Responses were analysed using a simplified content analysis approach to link concept to ICF ca...

OBJECTIVE The impact of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) on disability remains poorly understood. The World Health Organization's integrative model of human functioning and disability in the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) makes disability assessment possible. The ICF is a hierarchical coding system with four levels of details that includes over 1400 cat...

A key area left open in the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF) is the distinction between activity and participation. This paper suggests characteristics to distinguish between the components in the ICF model which explicitly include the relationship of contextual factors to the different components. Ten distinguishing characteristics are presented which f...

OBJECTIVE To exemplify the construction of interval scales for specified categories of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) by integrating items from a variety of patient-oriented instruments. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING Psychometric study using data from a convenience sample of 122 patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Patients completed six different patie...

OBJECTIVE The aims of this study were to explore the perspective of functioning in community-dwelling people with prior stroke and to confirm, if possible, the comprehensive international classification of functioning, disability and health (ICF) Comprehensive Core Set for stroke. METHODS Qualitative interviews were analysed (using the content analysis method and established ICF linking rules...

Objective: To test the ability of a model that integrates the theory of planned behavior (TPB) into the International Classification of Functioning Disability and Health (ICF) to predict walking limitations in adults awaiting hip or knee replacement surgery. Study Design and Participants: Cross-sectional structural equation modeling study of activity limitations in 190 adults. Method: A postal ...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this paper is to describe how the ICF framework was applied as the foundation for a longitudinal study of changes in quality-of-life (QoL) for youth with chronic conditions. METHOD This article will describe the study's aims, methods, measures and data analysis techniques. It will point out how the ICF framework was used--and expanded upon--to provide a model for st...

The Isabelle Collections Framework (ICF) provides a unified framework for using verified collection data structures in Isabelle/HOL formalizations and generating efficient functional code in ML, Haskell, and OCaml. Thanks to its modularity, it is easily extensible and supports switching to different data structures any time. For good integration with applications, a data refinement approach sep...