Erratum
for
Shattuck, Pediatrics 117 (4) 1028-1037.
Published online August 1, 2006
PEDIATRICS
Vol. 118
No. 2
August 2006, pp.
852a
(doi:10.1542/peds.2006-1720)
Shattuck PT. The Contribution of Diagnostic Substitution to the Growing Administrative Prevalence of Autism in US Special Education. PEDIATRICS 2006;117:1028–1037.
Errors appeared in the article by Shattuck titled "The Contribution of Diagnostic Substitution to the Growing Administrative Prevalence of Autism in US Special Education" that was published in the April 2006 issue of Pediatrics (doi:10.1542/peds.2005-1516). On page 1029, lines 8 through 11 in the first paragraph, the author wrote: "In the California Developmental Disabilities Service system, the number of clients with an autism diagnosis as a percentage of all clients rose from 4.9% to 9.4% during the 1994–2003 period.1" It should have read as follows: "In the California Developmental Disabilities Service system, the number of clients with an autism diagnosis as a percentage of all clients rose from 4.9% to 9.4% during the 1987–1998 period.1"
On page 1031, the last sentence of the first paragraph of the Results section, the author wrote: "Of the 2, the higher prevalence estimate from New Jersey was closest to other recent epidemiological surveys yielding estimates of 61.3 per 100038 and 57.9 per 1000.39" It should have read as follows: "Of the 2, the higher prevalence estimate from New Jersey was closest to other recent epidemiological surveys yielding estimates of 6.26 per 100038 and 5.87 per 1000.39"
On page 1037, Reference number 39 reads: Baird G, Charman T, Baron-Cohen S, et al. A screening instrument for autism at 18 months of age: A 6-year follow-up study. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2000;39:694–702.
Reference 39 should be: Chakrabarti S, Fombonne E. Pervasive developmental disorders in preschool children: Confirmation of high prevalence. Am J Psychiatry. 2005;162:1133–1141.
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