Open AccessExpert consensus on protocol of rehabilitation for COVID‐19 patients using framework and approaches of WHO International Family Classifications
Author(s) -
Zeng Bin,
Chen Di,
Qiu Zhuoying,
Zhang Minsheng,
Wang Guoxiang
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
aging medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2475-0360
DOI - 10.1002/agm2.12120
Subject(s) - international classification of functioning, disability and health , biopsychosocial model , rehabilitation , terminology , protocol (science) , medicine , intervention (counseling) , physical therapy , psychology , nursing , psychiatry , alternative medicine , pathology , linguistics , philosophy
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.