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PURPOSE: To present a systematic literature review on the state of the art of the
utilisation of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and
Health (ICF) since its release in 2001. METHOD: The search was conducted through
EMBASE, MEDLINE and PsychInfo covering the period between 2001 and December 2009.
Papers were included if ICF was mentioned in title or abstract. Papers focussing
on the ICF-CY and clinical research on children and youth only were excluded.
Papers were assigned to six different groups covering the wide scenario of ICF
application. RESULTS: A total of 672 papers, coming from 34 countries and 211
different journals, were included in the analysis. The majority of publications
(30.8%) were conceptual papers or papers reporting clinical and rehabilitation
studies (25.9%). One-third of the papers were published in 2008 and 2009.
CONCLUSIONS: The ICF contributed to the development of research on functioning
and on disability in clinical, rehabilitation as well as in several other
contexts, such as disability eligibility and employment. Diffusion of ICF
research and use in a great variety of fields and scientific journals is a proof
that a cultural change and a new conceptualisation of functioning and disability
is happening.

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