1 National Medical Institute of the Ministry of the Interior and Administration, Warsaw, Poland
2 National Louis University, Nowy Sacz, Poland
3 Department of Spatial Econometrics, Faculty of Economics and Sociology, University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland
4 Department of Social Medicine, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland
5 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Ciechanow Hospital, Ciechanow, Poland
AUTHOR FOR CORRESPONDENCE: Patryk Wicher; National Medical Institute of the Ministry of the Interior and Administration, Warsaw, Poland; email:
Patryk Wicher: 0000-0002-1330-3639
Kamila Furlepa: 0000-0002-5779-496X
Rafał Kaproń: 0009-0007-7981-9543
Anna Wicher: 0009-0000-6434-6914
Ewa Rybicka: 0009-0005-3760-7679
Karol Pawlak: 0000-0001-7665-3989
Maciej Jewczak: 0000-0002-7837-3486
Dominika Cichońska-Rzeźnicka: 0000-0001-8623-4307
Adam Rybicki: 0009-0006-7232-6183
Ewa Korpanty: 0009-0006-7519-4470
Sebastian Zduński: 0000-0002-2366-7882
Krystyna Futyma: 0000-0002-4611-0606
Wojciech Konarski: 0000-0001-5542-9988
Waldemar Wierzba: 0000-0002-8134-2955
Andrzej Śliwczyński: 0000-0002-0239-1637
Jan Krakowiak: 0000-0002-3435-9658Abstract
Background and Study Aim: According to World Health Organisation (WHO) recommendations, the effectiveness of rehabilitation measures should be evaluated comprehensively. The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) allows to make a bio-psycho-social functional assessment. ICF, being part of WHO international classifications, is an international standard for describing and assessing health and disability. This article is a presentation of a pilot application of this classification in the assessment of rehabilitation progress based on the model of information collection designed by the authors. The aim of the study was knowledge about the time-consuming nature of entering the required data related to the assessment of the effectiveness of rehabilitation intervention.
Material and Methods: Patients of two publicly funded inpatient rehabilitation centres participated in the study. On the basis of ICF-compliant criteria for assessing the progress and effectiveness of rehabilitation, the patient’s condition was assessed twice: upon his/her admission to hospital and upon his/her discharge after the rehabilitation stay. The rehabilitation stay financed from public funds by the national payer (the National Health Fund - NFZ) lasts 21 days during which each patient undergoes at least 5 physiotherapy procedures specified by a doctor. A total of 174 patients were examined.
Results: Assessment of results of rehabilitation progress in individual patients shows that vast majority of respondents (76%) demonstrated health improvement. The average questionnaire entry time was 3 minutes and 51 seconds.
Conclusions: Results of the pilot project indicate that the proposed solution would meet assumptions of a universal measure of rehabilitation progress based on the ICF model. The average time required for entering data into the questionnaire is shorter than the usual period of time needed to conduct a physiotherapy interview with a patient. Therefore, we recommend this method and tool as meeting the diagnostic criteria for use not only in rehabilitation, but also in therapy and prevention.
Key words: combat sports, effectiveness, innovative agonology, physiotherapy
AMA:Wicher P, Furlepa K, Kaproń R et al. Functional evaluation of rehabilitation outcome – a pilot project on implementation of the Inpatient Functional Assessment (ICF) in selected spas. ARCH BUDO. 2023;19APA:Wicher, P., Furlepa, K., Kaproń, R., Wicher, A., Rybicka, E., & Pawlak, K. et al. (2023). Functional evaluation of rehabilitation outcome – a pilot project on implementation of the Inpatient Functional Assessment (ICF) in selected spas. ARCH BUDO, 19Chicago:Wicher, Patryk, Furlepa Kamila, Kaproń Rafał, Wicher Anna, Rybicka Ewa, Pawlak Karol, and Jewczak Maciej et al. 2023. "Functional evaluation of rehabilitation outcome – a pilot project on implementation of the Inpatient Functional Assessment (ICF) in selected spas". ARCH BUDO 19Harvard:Wicher, P., Furlepa, K., Kaproń, R., Wicher, A., Rybicka, E., Pawlak, K., Jewczak, M., Cichońska-Rzeźnicka, D., Rybicki, A., Korpanty, E., Zduński, S., Futyma, K., Konarski, W., Wierzba, W., Śliwczyński, A., and Krakowiak, J. (2023). Functional evaluation of rehabilitation outcome – a pilot project on implementation of the Inpatient Functional Assessment (ICF) in selected spas. ARCH BUDO, 19MLA:Wicher, Patryk et al. "Functional evaluation of rehabilitation outcome – a pilot project on implementation of the Inpatient Functional Assessment (ICF) in selected spas." ARCH BUDO, vol. 19, 2023Vancouver:Wicher P, Furlepa K, Kaproń R et al. Functional evaluation of rehabilitation outcome – a pilot project on implementation of the Inpatient Functional Assessment (ICF) in selected spas. ARCH BUDO 2023; 19











