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ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2022

Brief Report: Impact of COVID-19 in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Analysis of a National Private Claims Insurance Database.

Arun Karpur, Vijay Vasudevan, Andy Shih, Thomas Frazier

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Article in Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07220837 (Randomized Control Trial), which is not on this map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing papers in PubMed
7.9field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT07220837 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2025, after this paper: background citation

Randomized Control Trial (RCT) of Online Learning Module to Advance Research Related to People With Disabilities (D2/R3)

TypeinterventionalSponsorAlbert Einstein College of MedicineRan2025 to 2026Enrolled108ConditionsDevelopmental Disability, Intellectual Disability, DisabilityArmseLearning module, Control
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 70 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. The Economic Impacts of COVID-19 on Autistic Children and Their Families.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025
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  10. Effects of COVID-19 on children with autism.World journal of virology · 2022
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  17. Severe Outcomes, Readmission, and Length of Stay Among COVID-19 Patients with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Arun KarpurAutism Speaks, 1060 State Rd, Princeton, NJ, USA. arun.karpur@autismspeaks.org.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9025-3911
Vijay VasudevanAutism Speaks, 1060 State Rd, Princeton, NJ, USA.
Andy ShihAutism Speaks, 1060 State Rd, Princeton, NJ, USA.
Thomas FrazierAutism Speaks, 1060 State Rd, Princeton, NJ, USA.
Autism Speaks · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a detrimental impact on individuals with disabilities. Data from FAIR Health's FH® NPIC (National Private Insurance Claims) database, one of the nation's largest databases of private insurance claim records, were analyzed to understand the experiences of individuals with ASD in the COVID-19 pandemic. Multivariate logistic regression models revealed that individuals with ASD + ID were nine times more likely to be hospitalized following COVID-19 infection (OR = 9.3; 95% CI: 6.9-12.5) and were nearly six times more likely to have an elevated length of hospital stay (OR = 5.9; 95% CI: 3.5-10.1) compared to those without ASD + ID. These findings point to the need for prioritizing access to vaccines to prevent COVID-19 infection and morbidities. This is the first study to illustrate a higher likelihood of hospitalization and elevated length of hospital stay from COVID-19 in individuals with ASD and other comorbidities.

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Autism Spectrum DisorderCOVID-19InsuranceHumansLength of StayPandemicsAutism spectrum disordersCOVID-19 pandemicFAIR health inc.HospitalizationIntellectual disabilities

Identifiers

PMID34041682
PMCPMC8153091
OpenAlexW3165117955

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