San Giovanni Battista Hospital, Department of Rehabilitation, Local Health Service n.3, Foligno, Italy.
Disabil Rehabil. 2009;31 Suppl 1:S134-43. doi: 10.3109/09638280903317906.
To review on the application of the ICF Classification to assess the person with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and his/her interaction with the environment.
Studies and reviews about the use of ICF in TBI have been included, by searching in Pubmed and in the proceedings of international meetings.
Eleven studies have been identified and classified into three types: (a) application of the classification; (b) single case study; (c) the use of other scales. Some studies are related to the application of ICF checklist. Finally, we analyse the most used ICF codes.
The ICF is a useful tool describes conditions and needs of patients with TBI. A diffuse utilisation could become the key resource for both health professionals and administrators that are in charge of allocating resources to pursue quality of life improvement. The ICF could be applied as a shared language to define health programmes' goals and as system for carrying out epidemiological studies. For this reason, it is desirable to define and validate the ICF Core Sets for TBI to provide a mean to be easily used, comprehensive and universal.
综述国际功能、残疾和健康分类（ICF）在评估创伤性脑损伤（TBI）患者及其与环境相互作用中的应用。
通过在 Pubmed 和国际会议论文集中检索，纳入了关于 ICF 在 TBI 中应用的研究和综述。
共确定了 11 项研究，并将其分为三类：（a）分类的应用；（b）单个病例研究；（c）其他量表的使用。一些研究与 ICF 检查表的应用有关。最后，我们分析了最常用的 ICF 代码。
ICF 是描述 TBI 患者状况和需求的有用工具。广泛应用可能成为负责分配资源以提高生活质量的卫生专业人员和管理人员的关键资源。ICF 可以作为一种共享语言来定义健康计划的目标，并作为开展流行病学研究的系统。因此，有必要为 TBI 定义和验证 ICF 核心集，以提供一种易于使用、全面和通用的方法。
