• DOI:10.1093/PTJ/82.11.1098
• Corpus ID: 18533369

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

@article{Steiner2002UseOT,
  title={Use of the ICF model as a clinical problem-solving tool in physical therapy and rehabilitation medicine.},
  author={W. Steiner and Liliane Ryser and Erika Omega Huber and Daniel Uebelhart and Andr{\'e} G. Aeschlimann and Gerold Stucki},
  journal={Physical therapy},
  year={2002},
  volume={82 11},
  pages={
          1098-107
        }
}

• W. Steiner, L. Ryser, +3 authors G. Stucki
• Published 1 November 2002
• Medicine, Psychology
• Physical therapy

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.