Content - Volume 43, Issue 2

Objective: To describe the empirical processes used to (i) validate the comprehensive International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) Core Sets, and (ii) develop brief ICF Core Sets from the ICF Categories of these more comprehensive ICF Core Sets. Design: Prospective multi-centre cohort study. Patients: Patients receiving rehabilitation interventions for musculoskeletal, ...

Objective: To examine the relevance and completeness of the comprehensive International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) Core Sets for patients with rehabilitation needs in acute hospital care. Design: Multi-centre cohort study. Patients: A total of 391 patients (50. 1% female, mean age 63. 4 years) from 4 university hospitals in Austria, Germany and Switzerland and o ...

Objective: To examine the relevance and completeness of the comprehensive International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) Core Set for patients in geriatric post-acute rehabilitation facilities. Design: Multi-centre cohort study. Patients: A total of 209 patients (67% female, mean age 80. 4 years) in geriatric wards of 2 Austrian and 3 German hospitals. Methods: Data ...

Objectives: To examine the relevance and completeness of the comprehensive International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) Core Sets for patients in post-acute rehabilitation facilities. Design: Multi-centre cohort study. Patients: A total of 165 patients (46% female; mean age 67. 5 years) from post-acute rehabilitation facilities in 2 Austrian and 7 German hospitals. ...

Objective: To identify candidate categories for brief International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) Core Sets for the reporting and measurement of functioning in patients in the acute hospital. Design: Prospective multi-centre cohort study. Patients: Patients receiving rehabilitation interventions for musculoskeletal, neurological or cardiopulmonary injury or disease ...

Objective: To identify candidate categories for International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) Core Sets for the reporting and measurement of functioning in patients in early post-acute rehabilitation facilities. Design: Prospective multi-centre cohort study. Patients: Patients receiving rehabilitation interventions for musculoskeletal, neurological or cardiopulmonary ...

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 ...

Objective: To identify goals of patients with rehabilitation needs in the acute hospital setting using the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF), to examine association of goal achievement with improvement in overall functioning, and to examine whether ICF Core Sets for the acute hospital cover patients goals. Design: Multi-centre cohort study. Patients: A to ...

Objective: Timely goal setting in close collaboration with the patient is essential to successful rehabilitation. We therefore sought to identify goals of patients in early post-acute rehabilitation as predictors of improved functioning. Design: We conducted a prospective multi-centre cohort study in 5 early post-acute rehabilitation facilities. Patients: Patients with musculoskeletal, cardiop ...

Objective: To identify goals of older patients in geriatric rehabilitation and to measure their improvement in overall functioning. Design: A prospective multi-centre cohort study. Methods: A semi-structured questionnaire was used to identify patient goals and to assess improvement in overall functioning from patients’ and health professionals’ perspectives. Patients’ goals were linked t ...

Objective: To operationalize items based on categories of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) relevant to patient problems that are addressed by physiotherapeutic interventions in the acute hospital, and to test the reliability of these items when applied by physiotherapists. Methods: A selection of 124 ICF categories was operation­alized in a formal dec ...

Objective: The aim of this study was to demonstrate the use of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) to measure the effect of physiotherapy treatment. Design: A prospective cohort study with an additional case report. Patients: Individuals were eligible for the study if they were patients at the University Hospital of Zurich and had received physiotherape ...