Abstract

Some authors have suggested the use of International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) in acute hospital setting and in intensive care unit (ICU) setting as a conceptual framework, however there are no reports of its application in daily clinical practice in ICU. The aim of this study was to show the feasibility and clinical utility of 12 selected categories of the ICF framework in two critically ill patients at different time points (pre-ICU, ICU admission, ICU awakening and ICU discharge). The application of ICF framework in two critical patients was feasible and had clinical utility because it provides order, synthesis and scored the impairment that limit functional mobility in critical patients. Futures clinimetric studies are now required to validate the psychometric properties of ICF-based score in ICU.