Programme : Presentation on 24
September 2003ICF Australian User Guide and implementation of the ICF in Australia
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Presented by AIHW on 24 September 2003, 9:00am
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ICF Australian User Guide and implementation of the ICF in Australia
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW)
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ICF implementation activities in Australia
- Australian ICF user guide
- Measurement and mapping existing tools to the ICF
- Use of the ICF in Surveys, clinical and administrative records
- National data dictionaries - and data consistency
- Training strategy
- Information, inquiries, presentations, promotion
- Broadly based advisory group
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What is the Australian ICF user guide?
The User Guide is a complement to the ICF that:
- explains its applicability
- outlines ICF benefits in the Australian context
- gives general advice about getting started
- informs the user about current and emerging applications, and
- promotes a consistent and constructive approach to its use
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What is in the Australian ICF user guide?
- Contents of the User Guide include:
- Overview of ICF
- Practical advice on getting started using ICF
- Approaches to delineating Activities and Participation
- Use of qualifiers for Activities and Participation
- Environmental factors - coding conventions
- Current and planned Australian applications
- How users can record their experience
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Useful information for new users
- Benefits of using the ICF for Australian disability statistics
- The ICF and the traditional approach to defining disability
- A checklist of steps for new users
- An example of getting started in the Australian education sector
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The ICF and disability data elements in national data dictionary
- Use of the ICF framework for a wide range of data
- Working towards national consistency on data collections
- The ICF and disability data elements in national data dictionary
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Disability data elements in national data dictionary
- Based on ICF:
- Five disability data concepts (e.g. 'Disability', 'Functioning', 'Activity')
- Ten disability data elements (e.g. 'Body functions', 'Impairment extent', 'Participation
extent')
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The ICF and the national disability services data collection
- Using the ICF to develop a support needs framework for service data collection
- Relate to existing assessment and data standards and practice in the field
- Level of support need also based on Australian population survey measures, to promote
comparability of population and service data
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Support needs data item in disability services collection
- Q: 'How often does the service user need personal help or supervision with activities or
participation in the following life areas?'
- Life areas based on Activities & Participation chapter headings (e.g. communication,
mobility and self-care)
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ICF and national study on unmet need for disability services
Using the ICF framework to:
- maximise the comparability of various disability data
- compare the profiles of needs for disability service clients with those for 'potential
clients' based on population disability data
- create a relationship framework for support needs and type of service
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The ICF framework and Australian Therapy Outcome Measures (AusTOMS)
- Lack of a common language and measurement for describing outcomes in rehabilitation
services
- Aiming to develop a valid, reliable and clinically relevant measure to reflect the
outcomes of therapeutic input.
- Applying the ICF framework and key concepts across disciplines will enable comparisons
of outcomes across these disciplines
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The ICF and classification for disability athletics
- Four existing major disability classification systems in disability athletics
- Lack of clarity and effectiveness due to the use of terms that are not standardised.
- The ICF and a unified disability athletics classification
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The ICF and oral health
- Significant progress in measuring oral health using the ICF framework
- Aiming to document the full impact of oral disorders on the population
- Using the ICF in developing instruments to measure oral health
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The ICF and speech pathology
Using the ICF:
- In the education of speech pathologists and audiologist
- In clinical practice
- As a research conceptual framework
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The ICF and Rett Syndrome study
The ICF is used as a conceptual framework to:
- investigate the broad aspects of disability and functioning associated with Rett
syndrome
- identify factors that are most beneficial and cost effective in optimising health,
function and quality of life for the affected child and family.
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The ICF and classification of support needs
- develop a system of classification using ICF conceptual framework.
- the multi-dimensional and dynamic nature of the support needs
- A system can be applied to a wide range of disabilities
- how the system can be directly linked with service planning and resource allocation.
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The ICF and accident compensation in Australia
- The limitations of the current compensation system
- The ICF provides a starting point for future development
- Main challenge: development of new assessment instruments
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