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Developing Core Sets for Persons With Traumatic Brain Injury Based on the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health

Brain Injury Unit, Institut Guttmann, Neurorehabilitation Hospital, Barcelona, Spain

Sara Laxe, MD, MS

Brain Injury Unit, Institut Guttmann, Neurorehabilitation Hospital, Barcelona, Spain, slaxe{at}guttmann.com

Raquel Lopez

Research Department, Institut Guttmann, Neurorehabilitation Hospital, Barcelona, Spain

Gerold Stucki, MD, MS

Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Institut for Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Munich, Germany

Anthony Ward

North Staffordshire Rehabilitation Centre, The Haywood, Stoke on Trent, United Kingdom

Michael Barnes

University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Hunter's Moor Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Nenad Kostanjsek

CAS-Classification, Assessment, and Terminology Team, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Geoffrey Reed

WHO Projects and International Union of Psychological Science, Madrid, Spain

Robyn Tate, PhD

Royal Rehabilitation Centre Sydney, Rehabilitation Studies Unit, Northern Clinical School, University of Sydney, Ryde, Australia

John Whyte, MD, PhD

Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania

Nathan Zasler, MD, FAAPM&R, FACRM, FAADEP, DAAPM, CBIST

International Brain Injury Association and Concussion Care Centre of Virginia, Ltd, Richmond, Virginia

Alarcos Cieza, PhD, MPH

Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Institut for Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Munich, Germany

The authors outline the process for developing the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF) Core Sets for traumatic brain injury (TBI). ICF Core Sets are selections of categories of the ICF that identify relevant categories of patients affected by specific diseases. Comprehensive and brief ICF Core Sets for TBI should become useful for clinical practice and for research. The final definition of the ICF Core Sets for TBI will be determined at an ICF Core Sets Consensus Conference, which will integrate evidence from preliminary studies. The development of ICF Core Sets is an inclusive and open process and rehabilitation professionals are invited to participate.

Key Words: ICF Core Set • TBI • Neurorehabilitation • Head trauma

This version was published on June 1, 2009

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, Vol. 23, No. 5, 464-467 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1545968308328725


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