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Invited Commentary

AM Jette, PT, PhD, FAPTA, is Director, Health & Disability Institute, and Professor of Health Policy & Management, School of Public Health, Boston University, 580 Harrison Ave, 4th Floor, Boston, MA 02118 (USA).

Address all correspondence to Dr Jette at: ajette@bu.edu

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In 2001, the World Health Organization (WHO) released the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF), which provided a comprehensive framework of health states that encompassed a biological, personal, and social perspective.¹ Since the May 2001 World Health Assembly endorsement as a member of the WHO family of international classifications, all member states were asked to implement the ICF in their respective health sectors.² Toward that goal, several international efforts have been launched to develop classification approaches for the assessment and reporting of ICF functioning and health concepts in clinical studies or clinical encounters.³ The Extended ICF Core Set for Stroke represents one such effort, and the excellent article by Starrost et al⁴ reports on the agreement between 2 physical therapists when rating patients’ functioning using the Extended ICF Core Set for Stroke.

As I have written elsewhere,⁵ I believe the development of the ICF framework is an important . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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