title: Use of the ICF model as a clinical problem-solving tool in physical therapy and rehabilitation medicine.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Rheumatology and Institute of Physical Medicine, University Hospital Zurich, Gloriastrasse 25, CH-8091 Zurich, Switzerland. wsteiner@rehabnet.ch
authors.forename: Werner A
authors.initials: WA
authors.lastname: Steiner
authors.forename: Liliane
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ryser
authors.forename: Erika
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Huber
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Uebelhart
authors.forename: Andr
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Aeschlimann
authors.forename: Gerold
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Stucki
mesh_terms: D001168:Arthritis / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D001170:Arthritis, Infectious / Q000150:complications / Q000382:microbiology; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003661:Decision Support Techniques; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010146:Pain / Q000209:etiology; D059408:Pain Management; D026741:Physical Therapy Modalities / Q000592:standards*; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000592:standards; D011340:Problem Solving; D015008:Yersinia enterocolitica