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The Cost of Autism Spectrum Disorders

Overview of attention for article published in PLOS ONE, September 2014
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Title
The Cost of Autism Spectrum Disorders
Published in
PLOS ONE, September 2014
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0106552
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Authors

Chiara Horlin, Marita Falkmer, Richard Parsons, Matthew A. Albrecht, Torbjorn Falkmer

Abstract

A diagnosis of an autism spectrum disorders is usually associated with substantial lifetime costs to an individual, their family and the community. However, there remains an elusive factor in any cost-benefit analysis of ASD diagnosis, namely the cost of not obtaining a diagnosis. Given the infeasibility of estimating the costs of a population that, by its nature, is inaccessible, the current study compares expenses between families whose children received a formal ASD diagnosis immediately upon suspecting developmental atypicality and seeking advice, with families that experienced a delay between first suspicion and formal diagnosis.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 3 <1%
Australia 2 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Unknown 322 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 56 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 41 13%
Researcher 40 12%
Student > Bachelor 33 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 20 6%
Other 51 16%
Unknown 87 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 71 22%
Medicine and Dentistry 49 15%
Nursing and Health Professions 26 8%
Social Sciences 24 7%
Neuroscience 13 4%
Other 47 14%
Unknown 98 30%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 101. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 September 2023.
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#422,632
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Outputs from PLOS ONE
#5,933
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#3,876
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Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#140
of 5,050 outputs
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