Detailed Clinician Updates are Critical to Educational Success for Pediatric Patients With ME/CFS

Abstract

Clinicians treating pediatric patients for ME/CFS are becoming increasingly aware of the critical role they play in assisting patients and their families in accessing special services that allow them to be successful in school. They understand that detailed physician letters, which include a diagnosis; a prognosis; lists of symptoms and medication side effects; and recommended accommodations and modifications to the school environment, will be more far effective in convincing a review committee to designate the student as “Other Health Impaired” (OHI) than a generic diagnosis form [1].