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“Functional Status/Activity Level” section of the documentation template from the Guide to Physical Therapist Practice. Reprinted from the Guide to Physical Therapist Practice, 2003, rev 2nd ed, 2003, pages 702 and 704, with permission of the American Physical Therapy Association. This material is copyrighted, and any further reproduction or distribution requires written permission from APTA.
Summary of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) integration in physical therapist practice.
Suggested Documentation Template Using Condition-Specific International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) Core Sets: The Osteoarthritis Core Set, Brief Version, Is Provided As an Example
a Brief Core Set (n=13) for osteoarthritis.
Tables

Suggested “Functional Status/Activity Level” Categories of Measures Based on the Generic Core Set of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF)
Supplementary Data
eAppendix
Files in this Data Supplement:
- eAppendix (PDF) (530 KB) -
This PDF contains the following eAppendix:
- eAppendix. International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) of the World Health Organization
Discussion Podcast: The ICF and Physical Therapist Practice
Participants: Rueben Escorpizo, PT, DPT, MSc, is Research Scientist, ICF Research Branch, WHO Family of International Classifications Collaborating Center, Swiss Paraplegic Research Association, Nottwil, Switzerland; Todd E. Davenport, PT, DPT, OCS, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy, University of the Pacific, Stockton, California; Daniel J. Vreeman, PT, DPT, is Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute Inc, and Assistant Research Professor of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana. Moderator: Linda Resnik, PT, PhD, Editorial Board member, PTJ.
Files in this Data Supplement:
- Discussion Podcast
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In their July 2010 article "Creating an Interface Between the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health and Physical Therapist Practice" and their companion paper "Using a Case Report of a Patient With Spinal Cord Injury to Illustrate the Application of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health During Multidisciplinary Patient Management," Escorpizo and colleagues discuss ways to incorporate the ICF into clinical documentation. Is a documentation template such
as the one they outlined feasible in practice? Will the implementation of the ICF in clinical practice provide tangible benefits
to clinicians, or will the ICF be just "one more thing" that busy clinicians have to do? In this podcast, Escorpizo is joined
by Todd Davenport, Daniel Vreeman, and Moderator Linda Resnick to discuss how the ICF might be used in day-to-day practice
and the work that remains to be done to
make implementation possible. The group also discusses how education programs, continuing education courses, and information
technology systems might make it easier for clinicians to adopt the ICF. Running time: 21:55 (15.2 MB).
Quick Grabs:
Dr. Reuben Escorpizo: "We need to make the ICF usable to clinicians, both physical therapists and physical therapist assistants."
Dr. Daniel Vreeman: "The proposed ICF templates move us much closer to using a common language to describe function and disability."
Dr. Todd Davenport: "Exposing students in physical therapy … programs would promote a widespread adoption by promoting the use of a uniform domain structure."References
Guide to Physical Therapist Practice. 2nd ed. Phys Ther. 2001;81:9-744. Revised June 2003. Available at: http://guidetoptpractice.apta.org
Rauch A, Escorpizo R, Riddle DL, et al. Using a case report of a patient with spinal cord injury to illustrate the application of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health during multidisciplinary patient management. Phys Ther. 2010;90:1039-1052.
Cieza A, Hilfiker R, Chatterji S, et al. The International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health could be used to measure functioning. J Clin Epidemiol. 2009;62(9):899-911.Rundell SD, Davenport TE, Wagner T. Physical therapist management of acute and chronic low back pain using the World Health Organization's International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health. Phys Ther. 2009;89:82-90.
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Correction
In the section "Proposal 2: Integration of Condition-Specific ICF Core Sets", the second sentence of "Purpose of the Proposed Template," "Table 2" should be "The Appendix." In the third sentence of the same paragraph, "table" should be "template". The Journal regrets the errors.