International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health Domains of 60 Physical Functioning Measurement Instruments Used During the Adult Intensive Care Unit Stay: A Scoping Review.
Felipe González-Seguel, Evelyn Jane Corner, Catalina Merino-Osorio
PMID 30590839WHAT IT FOUND
Most ICU physical function tools measure mobility.
Sixty tools covered 26 ICF domains, but none captured all four ICF components. If you need a broad picture, expect to combine scales, scores, questionnaires, or biophysical tests.
Key findings
01Sixty physical functioning instruments used in adult ICU studies mapped to 26 ICF domains, with Mobility appearing in 38 instruments.
02No instrument included all four ICF components.
03Walking short distances was the most frequent Mobility subdomain, and it appeared in 26 instruments.
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What it does not show
The researchers had no formal training in the ICF framework, and the consensus was done by email rather than in person. Only English and Spanish articles were included, so relevant studies in other languages may have been missed. Two instruments were excluded from the ICF mapping because their full versions were unavailable, so the review does not cover every named instrument. This review reports which ICF domains the instruments cover, not whether they are valid or reliable.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read this as evidence that any instrument is valid or superior for ICU patients. The review mapped the content of 60 instruments to ICF domains, but it did not evaluate whether the instruments measure those domains well.