Aging Medicine (Jun 2020)

Expert consensus on protocol of rehabilitation for COVID‐19 patients using framework and approaches of WHO International Family Classifications

  • Bin Zeng,
  • Di Chen,
  • Zhuoying Qiu,
  • Minsheng Zhang,
  • Guoxiang Wang,
  • Rehabilitation Group of Geriatric Medicine branch of Chinese Medical Association, division of Management of Medical Rehabilitation Institution of Chinese Hospital Association, Rehabilitation Institution Management division of Chinese Rehabilitation Medical Association, division of Rehabilitation Psychology, Chinese Psychological Association, division of Disability Classification Research, Chinese Association of Rehabilitation of Disabled Persons

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1002/agm2.12120
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 2
pp. 82 – 94

Abstract

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Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) has widely spread all over the world and the numbers of patients and deaths are increasing. According to the epidemiology, virology, and clinical practice, there are varying degrees of changes in patients, involving the human body structure and function and the activity and participation. Based on the World Health Organization (WHO) International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) and its biopsychosocial model of functioning, we use the WHO Family of International Classifications (WHO‐FICs) framework to form an expert consensus on the COVID‐19 rehabilitation program, focusing on the diagnosis and evaluation of disease and functioning, and service delivery of rehabilitation, and to establish a standard rehabilitation framework, terminology system, and evaluation and intervention systems based the WHO‐FICs.

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