Model System:

TBI

Reference Type:

Journal

Accession No.:

J67521

Journal:


Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Year, Volume, Issue, Page(s):

, 95, 1 (Supplement 1), S45-S54

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Abstract:

Article discusses a number of issues relevant to the development of a conceptual framework for a rehabilitation treatment taxonomy (RTT). A number of issues still need to be addressed before an RTT can be created and used by various stakeholder groups in their work in rehabilitation. They include: (1) creating distinctions within the major target classes; (2) the nature and quantity of allowable targets of treatment; and (3) bracketing as a way of specifying the skill or knowledge taught; the nature of compensation afforded by changes in the environment, assistive technology, and orthotics/prosthetics; and the ingredients in homework a clinician assigns. Clarification is provided regarding the role of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health, focusing a taxonomy on ingredients versus other observable aspects of treatment, and regarding the lack of knowledge and its impact on taxonomy development. The immediate implications of the work to date and the need for rehabilitation stakeholders of all disciplines to be involved in further RTT development are discussed.

Author(s):


Dijkers, Marcel P., Hart, Tessa, Whyte, John, Zanca, Jeanne M., Packel, Andrew, Tsaousides, Theodore

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