Development of the Functional Capacity Index (FCI)

摘要

The objective of this study was to develop a multi-attribute index that mapsanatomic descriptions of the nature and extent of injury into scores that reflect the likely extent of functional limitations or reduced capacity at one year post-injury. The development of the Functional Capacity Index (FCI) involved three steps: Development of a comprehensive definition of functional capacity; Assigning relative severity values to the levels within each dimension and to the dimensions themselves; Assigning dimension specific severity levels and whole body scores to the injury descriptions included in the 1990 revision of the Abbreviated Injury Scale Dictionary (AIS). The product of this effort consists of a computerized mapping of 1990 AIS injury descriptions into dimension specific and whole body scores that reflect expected levels of reduced capacity at one year post-injury. The mapping was developed for application to adolescents and adults only. The development of the FCI will facilitate the use of routinely available information on the nature and extent of injury for classifying injuries according to expected levels of reduced functional capacity.