Use of the ICF model as a clinical problem-solving tool in physical therapy and rehabilitation medicine

Phys Ther. 2002 Nov;82(11):1098-107.

Abstract

The authors developed an instrument called the "Rehabilitation Problem-Solving Form" (RPS-Form), which allows health care professionals analyze patient problems, to focus on specific targets, and to relate the salient disabilities to relevant and modifiable variables. In particular, the RPS-Form was designed to address the patients' perspectives and enhance their participation in the decision-making process. Because the RPS-Form is based on the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF) Model of Functioning and Disability, it could provide a common language for the description of human functioning and therefore facilitates multidisciplinary responsibility and coordination of interventions. The use of the RPS-Form in clinical practice is demonstrated by presenting an application case of a patient with a chronic pain syndrome.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Arthritis / complications*
  • Arthritis / physiopathology
  • Arthritis, Infectious / complications
  • Arthritis, Infectious / microbiology
  • Cooperative Behavior
  • Decision Support Techniques*
  • Disability Evaluation
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Pain / etiology
  • Pain Management*
  • Physical Therapy Modalities / standards*
  • Physician-Patient Relations
  • Practice Patterns, Physicians' / standards
  • Problem Solving*
  • Yersinia enterocolitica