TY - JOUR AU - Fombonne, Eric AU - Heavey, Lisa AU - Smeeth, Liam AU - Rodrigues, Laura C. AU - Cook, Claire AU - Smith, Peter G. AU - Meng, Linyan AU - Hall, Andrew J. PY - 2004 DA - 2004/03/03 TI - Validation of the diagnosis of autism in general practitioner records JO - BMC Public Health SP - 5 VL - 4 IS - 1 AB - We report on the validity of the computerized diagnoses of autism in a large case-control study investigating the possible association between autism and the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine in the UK using the General Practitioner Research Database (GPRD). We examined anonymized copies of all relevant available clinical reports, including general practitioners' (GP) notes, consultant, speech therapy and educational psychologists reports, on 318 subjects born between 1973 and 1997 with a diagnosis of autism or a related disorder recorded in their electronic general practice record. SN - 1471-2458 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-4-5 DO - 10.1186/1471-2458-4-5 ID - Fombonne2004 ER -