Authors: Luther G Kalb Roma A Vasa Elizabeth D Ballard Steven Woods Mitchell Goldstein Holly C Wilcox
Publish Date: 2016/05/30
Volume: 46, Issue: 8, Pages: 2756-2763
Abstract
Several reports suggest children with autism spectrum disorder ASD are more likely to be seen for injuryrelated ED visits however no nationally representative study has examined this question Using data from the 2008 Nationwide Emergency Department Sample over a quarter of all visits among those with ASD were related to injury In the multivariate analyses the odds of an injuryrelated visit was 54 greater among those with ASD compared to youth with intellectual disability ID but 48 less compared to youth without ID or ASD Compared to all other pediatric injuryvisits in the US visits among children with ASD were more likely to be due to selfinflicted injury and poisoning and were more likely to result in hospitalization all p 0001LK RV and HW conceived of the study and participated in the design LK RV HW EB RW and MG particpated in interpretation of the data and coordination of the study LK performed the statistical analysis All authors read and approved the final manuscript
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