BACKGROUND The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) was introduced by the World Health Organization as a common taxonomy to describe the burden of health conditions. This study focuses on the development of a scale for staging basic mobility and walking functions based on the ICF. METHODS Thirty-three ICF codes were selected to test their fit to the Rasch m...

BACKGROUND Our study aimed to evaluate changes in the contractile behavior of human myocardium after exposure to caffeine and taurine, the main active ingredients of energy drinks (EDs), and to evaluate whether taurine exhibits any inotropic effect at all in the dosages commonly used in EDs. METHODS Myocardial tissue was removed from the right atrial appendages of patients undergoing cardiac ...

This article describes an intelligent system for financial planning and cashflow optimization named ICF: Intelligent Cash Flow. ICF is a computational tool for decision support which provides short-term and long-term financial managing strategies, considering financial products of the market. The ICF system makes use of Genetic Algorithms to elaborate cash flow projections which improve the com...

OBJECTIVE To identify goals of older patients in geriatric rehabilitation and to measure their improvement in overall functioning. DESIGN A prospective multi-centre cohort study. METHODS A semi-structured questionnaire was used to identify patient goals and to assess improvement in overall functioning from patients' and health professionals' perspectives. Patients' goals were linked to the ...

An important basis for the successful development of rehabilitation practice and research is a conceptually sound description of rehabilitation understood as a health strategy based on a universally accepted conceptual model and taxonomy of human functioning. With the approval of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) by the World Health Assembly in 2001 an...

OBJECTIVES To systematically identify and compare the concepts contained in outcome measures of clinical trials on chronic ischaemic heart disease, diabetes mellitus, obesity, and obstructive pulmonary disease, including asthma using the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) as a reference. METHODS Randomized controlled trials between 1993 and 2003 were loca...

OBJECTIVE The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) is used increasingly to describe and classify functioning in medicine without being a psychometrically sound measure. All categories of the ICF are quantified using the same generic 0-4 scale. The objective of this study was to assess observer agreement when describing and classifying functioning with the ICF...

| July 2015 | 715 different in Iran as compared with other countries.[7] The study reveals that there is an extensive conceptual and methodological gap in the census method and we should pay more attention to reduce the gap. The International Classification of Functioning disability and health (ICF) is a comprehensive population health measurement framework applied for the scientific standardiz...