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M Scheuringer

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Developing core sets for persons with spinal cord injuries based on the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health as a way to specify functioning.

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this paper is to outline the proposed development process for the ICF Core Sets for Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) and to invite clinical and consumer experts to actively participate in this process. ICF Core Sets are selections of categories of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) that are relevant to persons with a specific condition or in a specific setting. METHOD: The project is a cooperation between the ICF Research Branch of the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaboration Centre of the Family of International Classifications (DIMDI, Germany), the Classification, Assessment and Terminology (CAT) team and the Disability and Rehabilitation (DAR) team at WHO, the International Spinal Cord Society (ISCoS) and International Society for Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (ISPRM) and partner institutions across the world. The project will consist of four worldwide studies to be conducted from 2006 to 2007 with a proposed ICF Core Set Consensus Conference to be held in 2007. ICF categories relevant for SCI are to be identified by means of (I) an empirical study, (II) a systematic review of outcomes and measures used in SCI research (III) an expert survey and (IV) focus groups and semistructured interviews with persons with SCI. Consensus about items that have to be part of a Comprehensive and of a Brief ICF Core Set for SCI will be reached in a final ICF Core Set Consensus Conference. Subsequent field testing will be necessary to validate this first version of ICF Core Sets for SCI. INVITATION FOR PARTICIPATION: The development of ICF Core Sets is an inclusive and open process. Anyone who wishes to actively participate in this process is invited to contact the project coordinator (Monika.Scheuringer@med.uni-muenchen.de or http://www.icf-research-branch.org/research/spinalcord-injuries.htm). Individuals, institutions and associations can be formally associated as partners of the project.

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[Inpatient health care utilization for musculoskeletal disorders and injuries: a forecast study for Germany up to 2010].

BACKGROUND: The study is part of the project "Orthopaedics 2010 -- evaluation of the demand for the orthopaedic work force in the year 2010", initiated by the professional association of orthopaedists (BVO). The aim is to estimate the prospective number of orthopaedists for the sufficient medical care of musculoskeletal disorders and injuries. METHODS: The main data source was the official statistics of discharge rates from 1994 to 1999 and the German population forecasts from 1994 to 2010 of the Federal Office of Statistics, Wiesbaden, Germany. An univariate forecasting analysis was done using the Granger and Newbold method. RESULTS: All diagnostic categories of musculoskeletal disorders (arthropathies, dorsopathies, rheumatism, osteopathies) will increase up to four-fold from 1994 to 2010. Three of the four diagnostic categories of injuries (dislocations, sprains and strains; contusion; injuries and open wounds) will decrease by up to 15 percent, the diagnostic category of fractures will increase (10 percent). The stratified analyses by gender and age reveal that women and persons over 65 years old are more often affected by musculoskeletal disorders and injuries. CONCLUSIONS: Both demographic changes and changes in the utilization of inpatient care will lead to a substantial increase of hospital cases up to 2010. The presented results should be looked at together with their confidence limits as interval estimations. In addition, there are independent external factors such as the new prospective payment system (G-DRGs) that will influence the hospital admission rates as well.

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Identification of health problems in patients with acute inflammatory arthritis, using the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF).

OBJECTIVES: To identify the most common health problems experienced by patients with acute inflammatory arthritis using the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF), and to provide empirical data for the development of an ICF Core Set for acute inflammatory arthritis. METHODS: Cross-sectional survey of patients with acute inflammatory arthritis of two or more joints requiring admission to an acute hospital. The second level categories of the ICF were used to collect information on patients' health problems. Relative frequencies of impairments, limitations and restrictions in the study population were reported for the ICF components Body Functions, Body Structures, and Activities and Participations. For the component Environmental Factors absolute and relative frequencies of perceived barriers or facilitators were reported. RESULTS: In total, 130 patients were included in the survey. The mean age of the population was 59.9 years (median age 63.0 years), 75% of the patients were female. Most had rheumatoid arthritis (57%) or early inflammatory polyarthritis (22%). Fifty-four second-level ICF categories had a prevalence of 30% or more: 3 (8%) belonged to the component Body Structures and 10 (13%) to the component Body Functions. Most categories were identified in the components Activities and Participation (19; 23%) and Environmental Factors (22; 56%). CONCLUSION: Patients with acute inflammatory arthritis can be well described by ICF categories and components. This study is the first step towards the development of an ICF Core Set for patients with acute inflammatory arthritis.

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