Functional Assessment
Understand a patient's abilities, limitations, and environment to set goals that are achievable, meaningful, and aligned with their personal priorities.
Understanding the ICF
The ICF uses a structured coding and scoring system to bring consistency and precision to functional assessment across all clinical settings.
Steps to Effective Rehabilitation
- 1
Functional Assessment
Conduct a standardised ICF assessment using condition-specific core sets to establish the patient's baseline functional status.
- 2
Identify Problems
Review the scored ICF codes to surface the functional problems most relevant to the patient's rehabilitation needs.
- 3
Goal Setting
Set patient-centred rehabilitation goals that are specific, measurable, and directly tied to identified ICF problems.
- 4
Objective Setting
Break goals into short-term objectives and actionable steps that guide the day-to-day rehabilitation plan.
- 5
Reporting
Generate structured outcome reports from ICF reassessment data to evidence progress, support handovers, and inform future care planning.