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People may suffer from diseases and a variety of health conditions, but
a full understanding of the experience of their health condition also requires
comprehensive information about the impact of the disease or the health condition
on the person. This article operationalises the impacts of health conditions as
classified in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) in terms of the
concept of functioning as found in the International Classification of
Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF). It identifies a set of ICF categories
as the functioning properties - to describe the impact of health conditions
generically across health conditions to be jointly used with the ICD. METHOD: The
ICF categories to characterise the functioning properties of any health condition
have been selected from three main generic health profile instruments: The World
Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 (WHODAS 2.0), the World
Health Survey (WHS) Questionnaire and a list of candidate categories of the
generic ICF core set. RESULTS: A set of ICF categories to describe the impact of
a health condition is presented according to specific functioning domains.
CONCLUSIONS: The joint use of the ICD and the ICF through the list of functioning
properties and in the context of ICD-11 development captures the valuable synergy
of the two classifications. It enhances patient management, intervention design
and the reporting of health. It also enables us to distinguish severity of
disease from its impacts. The ICD-ICF joint use creates a shared formal
representation across the continuum of care for health information system implementation.
Classification des handicaps

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