Umsetzung der ICF in den klinischen Alltag der Physiotherapie

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The ICF was adopted in May 2001 by the assembly of the World Health Organisation. Attempts to introduce the ICF into clinical practice and research have been undertaken in many countries. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this background article, as an introduction to the three original articles in this edition, is to show how the ICF classification system can be used in physiotherapy. METHOD: It will be shown that the ICF may be adopted for the classification of physiotherapy diagnoses, therapy aims, interventions and outcomes. With the intent to create a physiotherapy-specific user-friendly document for the physiotherapy core process, lists from ICF intervention categories for physiotherapy were developed and validated. RESULTS: Willingness to use the lists in everyday clinical practice is dependent on the expenditure of time this work is associated with. CONCLUSIONS: The use of lists allows the standardised documentation of relevant patient data with an accredited classification system. Ideally, physiotherapists have previous knowledge of the ICF and the expenditure of time for filling in a list should not exceed five minutes. In future, training should be provided for the use of ICF intervention categories in clinical practice.