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. 2019 Nov 29;19:920. doi: 10.1186/s12913-019-4600-5

Table 2.

Descriptive statistic of applied ICF-Dietetics categories in respect of medical areas

Total Diabetes and Metabolism Gastroenterology Surgery Oncology Others a
Frequency of documents (n) 55 17 7 15 9 7
Frequency of extracted different ICF categories (n) 248 d 102 45 102 54 48
Percentage (%) of total concepts n = 248 41 18 41 22 19
Frequency of second-level ICF categories (n) 75 d 38 24 41 28 24
Percentage (%) of total n = 75 51 32 55 37 32
Body Functions (n) 32 d 14 15 20 18 12
Body Structures (n) 5 d 2 2 3 3 1
Activities (n) b 15 d 10 1 5 3 3
Participation (n) b 6 d 1 2 4 3 0
Environmental Factors (n) 10 d 8 4 4 1 3
Personal Factors (n) c 7 d 3 0 5 0 5

aOther medical areas included nephrology, pediatrics, neurology

bIn contrast to the original ICF where “Activities and Participation” begins with (d), the ICF-Dietetics differentiates between “Activities (a)” and “Participation (p)” as it is also given as an alternative option by World Health Organization [58]

cICF-Dietetics provides a first draft of codes covering “Personal Factors”

dA concept could be used in different medical areas, thus, n is not the sum of them