PCR132 Is Walking as Important as Communicating After Stroke? Preference Weighting of ICF's Core Elements

The International Classification of Functioning, Disability & Health is commonly used to measure outcomes in rehabilitation. As other instruments it assigns equal weight to each item. ICF doesn’t distinguish importance and all changes are assumed to have equal relevance. It doesn’t account for how people value improvements. The objective is to examine the extent to which preference-weighted core elements of the ICF differ from unweighted assignments currently used in treatment decisions