Commentary: Fact and artefact in the secular increase in the rate of autism

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1238-1239

  Rutter, Michael ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTISM; CHILD PSYCHIATRY; DIAGNOSTIC REASONING; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; ILLNESS TRAJECTORY; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MORBIDITY; NOTE; PARENTAL AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; SOCIAL PSYCHIATRY;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; CALIFORNIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MENTAL RETARDATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREVALENCE;

EID: 70349884338     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyp257     Document Type: Note

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