Clinical Practice (assessment, diagnosis, treatment, knowledge translation/EBP, implementation science, program development)
Cross-Cutting
Health Services Research
Symposium
Andrea Cheville, MD
Director of Cancer Rehabilitation
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota
Jonathan Bean, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
Leighton Chan, MD, MPH, FACRM
Chief, Rehabilitation Medicine
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland
John Whyte, MD, PhD
Institute Scientist Emeritus
Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute
Elkins Park, Pennsylvania
The International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF) portrays the complex inter-relationships of constructs that determine an individual's function, activity, and participation. However, it has gained limited traction as a means to pragmatically inform rehabilitation services delivery, or to communicate efficiently and precisely with non-rehabilitation clinicians. This symposium will examine the ICF's utility from two perspectives; 1) pragmatically informing and individualizing day-to-day clinical care and 2) advancing interdisciplinary function-related communication. Presenters address these topics from the perspective of cancer rehabilitation (Andrea Cheville), geriatrics (Jon Bean), brain injury (John Whyte), and policy (Leighton Chan).