Autism Diagnoses

Reedy, Cara

Concept Set

Needs Refinement

Autism Diagnoses

Variable Name

dx_asd

Created

2023-12-06

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Abstract

This concept set was developed to identify autism diagnoses to identify patients to define a study cohort

Affiliation(s)

Nemours Children's Health

Provenance

This concept set was developed for the study "Vision Screening in Young Children with Autism."

Description

The concept set was based on a set of ICD-9 codes for autism diagnoses developed by Eileen Antico, which were used to search concepts in PEDSNet and manually reviewed by Cara Reedy. It includes diagnoses of Rett syndrome. It was used to include patients in a cohort in a study comparing an autistic and non-autistic cohort.

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Data Source

Resource

PEDSnet Production Database (2024-04)

(2024-04) PEDSnet Data Coordinating Center

PEDSnet production database containing de-identified aggregate electronic healthcare information for ten contributing pediatric healthcare institutions. This database corresponds to Version 5.3 of the PEDSnet data model.

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