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Rehabilitation professionals often
rely on measurements of functioning as well as on classifications. Although the
International Classification of Diseases (ICD) and the International
Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) are used, their joint
use has yet to become an established practice. To encourage their joint use in
daily practice, the World Health Organization (WHO) has invited all
rehabilitation practitioners worldwide to support the ICD-11 revision process by
identifying the ICF categories that correspond to specific
rehabilitation-relevant health conditions. The first step in completing this
task, generating the list of these health conditions, was taken at a February
2012 workshop in Sao Paulo, Brazil. OBJECTIVES: The objectives of this paper are
to present the results of the Sao Paulo workshop, and to invite practitioners to
participate in the ICD-ICF joint use initiative. DISCUSSION: Alternating plenary
and small working group sessions were held and 103 rehabilitation-relevant health
conditions were identified. With this list available, WHO together with the
International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (ISPRM), is
reaching out to clinicians of all rehabilitation disciplines to take on the
challenge of identifying the ICF categories for at least one of the health
conditions listed.

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