Information system to support icf application on the clinical practice of the physical therapy
International Journal of Development Research
Information system to support icf application on the clinical practice of the physical therapy
Received 20th March, 2021; Received in revised form 26th April, 2021; Accepted 18th May, 2021; Published online 20th June, 2021
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The aim of the present study is to introduce the specification of an information system related to the application of International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) contributing to its use in clinical practice of a clinical-school of Physiotherapy. This is a development research that was carried out in Curitiba between the months of June 2016 and June 2017. During this period brainstorms were realized in order to obtain the system requirements and draw its model based on Unified Modeling Language (UML). Results were obtained by Use case, Class and Sequence diagrams. Contribution may be seen as the electronic registrations of the information generated by the school clinic based on the ICF, replacing the hardcopy registrations and constituting a database that support, beside the Operational Information, the Decision Support Information.
