Linking Concept of Functional Evaluation for Children with Congenital Heart Disease with ICF-CY
Abstract：Objective To determine the concept of functional evaluation for children with congenital heart disease in the views of Inter-national Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (Children and Youth Version) (ICF-CY). Methods Clinical researches on chil-dren and adolescents with congenital heart disease nearly a decade were recalled from MEDLINE/PubMed and EMBASE. The concepts ex-tracted were linked with ICF-CY. Results 224 researches were recalled. The concepts linked with ICF-CY in 12 first categories, 28 second categories, of which 17 items were of body function, 2 of body structure, 6 of activities and participation, and 3 of environmental factors. Conclusion ICF-CY is a useful framework for functional assessment for children with congenital heart disease. It is important to make the measurement uniformity for comparability of the researches.
Keywords：congenital heart diseaseInternational Classification of FunctioningDisability and Health (Children and Youth Version)assessmentlink
Publication Date：2014-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：4( 11-14 )