Amy Houtrow

Jun 17, 2024 | jamanetwork.com | Amy Houtrow |Angela Garcia |Jason Edinger |Unoma Akamagwuna

Disability Competent Care in Pediatric Milestones Childhood disability is on the rise.1 The need to improve medical education to optimize health care for people with disabilities has led to the development of disability competencies for health professionals at all levels of training.2 We examined how disability is addressed in the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education’s (ACGME’s) Milestones 2.0 for pediatric primary specialties, subspecialties, and combined specialties. We...

Feb 8, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Stefanie G. Ames |Rebecca K Delaney |Claudia Delgado-Corcoran |Amy Houtrow

DATA AVAILABILITY STATEMENT The data that support the findings of this study are available on request from the corresponding author. The data are not publicly available due to privacy or ethical restrictions.

Nov 3, 2023 | patientcareonline.com | Amy Houtrow

Pediatric physical medicine and rehabilitation physician Dr Amy Houtrow told Patient Care® recently that clinicians in the specialty are "really great medical home neighbors," and that regular collaboration among all health care professionals on a disabled child's care team can make a big difference in outcomes.

Nov 2, 2023 | patientcareonline.com | Amy Houtrow

"Like all pediatricians...we really understand that kind of intricate and extremely important relationship that patients, especially children, have with their support systems and for children, that's their families."For children with disabilities, the exchange of information with families is essential to support goal development and to attaining those goals.

Nov 1, 2023 | patientcareonline.com | Amy Houtrow

"My colleagues at Seattle Children's, they fly up to Alaska to do clinic and my colleagues in Denver go up to Wyoming and those other mountain states to provide rehabilitation care."Pediatric rehabilitation physician Amy Houtrow, MD, PhD, MPH, spoke with Patient Care® about efforts in the physiatry community to overcome geographic barriers to care and to spread the services of the fewer than 400 pediatric rehabilitation medicine doctors in the US.