IFCI: Inpatient Functional Communication Interview

The IFCI provides structured assessment that gives a comprehensive evaluation of the everyday communication needs of patients whilst they are in hospital.

The interview is conducted in three parts:

• Gathering relevant information from the patient's medical history
• Interviewing the patient
• Interviewing the relevant members of the healthcare team.

This enables the clinician to write an overall summary which will describe the patient's ability to communicate in the hospital  setting, identifies the strategies that facilitate effective communication and identifies any goals for intervention.

Adult

Chapters

• Chapter 1 - Overview
  • What does the ICI Measure?
  • Who should conduct the IFCI Which patients shoud be assessed with the IFCI?
  • When and where should you use the IFCI ?
  • Why should you use the IFCI ?
• Chapter 2 - The development of the IFCI
  • Background
  • Identifying the communication situations that occur in hospital.
  • Selecting communication situations for functional communication measure for the hospital setting.
  • Determining the final list.
  • Validity of the IFCI Interrater and intrarater reliability of the IFCI
• Chapter 3 - Administration
  • Intoduction
  • Step 1: Documneting the patient's relevant biographical details, medical history, current medical condition and health management plans.
  • Step 2: Conducting the IFCI with the patient at bedside.
  • Step 3: Conducting further interviews with relevant staff.
  • Step 4: Writing a summary
• Chapter 4 - Scoring the IFCI
  • Scoring information
  • Scoring each IFCI situation
  • Scoring the IFCI on the basis of staff interviews
  • Calculating overall scores
  • Case Studies.