Hi, I would be interested to know if anyone has worked with ICF? ( ICF Browser ) ICF is a classification for body functions, activities, environmental factors and body structures. My first idea was to use the problem/diagnosis archetype. ( Clinical Knowledge Manager ) But with the ICF I don’t neces…

Hi Johannes, Can you tell us a bit more about the context of your project and how ICF is expected to be used? My guess would be that this is either for reporting purposes or some kind or registry/analytics purpose, which tends to push us down a different modelling approach. So yes Problem /Diagno…

Hi Ian, please excuse the delay in answering. i think that is also why the discussion has developed in a different direction. In fact, my current concern is oriented towards the point of care. It is about the longitudinal view of a patient. Is my patient’s condition improving or deteriorating? How…

Nursing diagnoses have a similar issue in that some of the diagnoses are “positive” (from the patient’s well being point of view, not the point of view of testing), for example ICNP 10029065 No Pressure Ulcer. However, these are usually used as goals and evaluation results, and not as “problems”. I…

We looked at functional assessments a couple of years ago and modelled a bunch of archetypes, which are on Apperta CKM: Clinical Knowledge Manager These include an Personal care needs EVALUATION archetype to which specific CLUSTER archetypes (such as Dressing self and Washing self ) can be nested in…

Thanks Heidi! I think you’re right that the ADL assessment archetype was created as an attempt to generalise the concepts of the Personal care needs and Mobility archetypes in the Apperta CKM. In this case, the initial “yes/no/unknown” questions in those archetypes would be represented using the Pr…

We have a similar requirement. Where patient assessment for elderly rehabilitation is done for five domains: Somatic (e.g stroke) Functional (inability to walk indecent due to hemiparesis) Social (inability to visit family due to difficulty walking) Psychological (feelings of loss leading to sleep d…

Modelling for ICF (International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health )

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Modelling for ICF (International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health )

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