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 ICF
Core Sets for chronic conditions
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The
ICF Core Sets project is a collaboration project between
the World Health Organization (WHO) and the ICF Research
Branch, WHO FIC, Germany, at the University of Munich
and many other partner organizations.
Two phases with their respective aims can be distinguished
in this project.
Phase I, which has already been completed, aimed to select
the ICF categories to be included in the different ICF
Core Sets. This selection took place in three international
consensus conferences that were held at Seeon's monastery,
near Munich. During these conferences experts from all
over the world derived the spectrum of prototypical ICF
categories in a variety of 12 health conditions based
on the results of preliminary studies using empirical
data from 1000 patients, international Delphi surveys
and systematic reviews.
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First
Version of the ICF Core Sets for chronic conditions
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Phase II of the project aims to implement and validate
the Core Sets developed during phase I. Currently there
are four different studies being performed with this
purpose:
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EULAR
- European validation of the ICF Core Sets for five
musculoskeletal diseases
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ICF
Core Sets multicenter international validation study
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Validation
of the Comprehensive ICF Core Sets from the Patient
Perspective
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Validation
of the ICF Comprehensive Core Sets from the perspective
of Health Professionals
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