Epidemiology of Injury-Related Emergency Department Visits in the US Among Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Luther G. Kalb; Roma A. Vasa; Elizabeth D. Ballard; Steven Woods; Mitchell Goldstein; Holly C. Wilcox

doi:10.1007/s10803-016-2820-7

Epidemiology of Injury-Related Emergency Department Visits in the US Among Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Luther G. Kalb, Roma A. Vasa, Elizabeth D. Ballard, Steven Woods, Mitchell Goldstein, Holly C. Wilcox

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Several reports suggest children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are more likely to be seen for injury-related 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 injury-related 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 injury-visits in the US, visits among children with ASD were more likely to be due to self-inflicted injury and poisoning and were more likely to result in hospitalization (all p < 0.001).

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	2756-2763
Number of pages	8
Journal	Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Volume	46
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-016-2820-7
State	Published - Aug 1 2016

Keywords

Autistic disorder
Emergency medicine
Epidemiology
Injury
Intellectual disability

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Developmental and Educational Psychology

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