ArticleSleep medicine2022
Characterizing sleep disorders in an autism-specific collection of electronic health records.
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- Pediatric precision sleep network: a study protocol for identifying sleep signatures of mental health risk in peri-adolescents.BMC pediatrics · 2026Article
- Sleep Disturbances and Co-sleeping in Italian Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
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- Acceptability and safety of a probiotic beverage supplementation (Bio-K +) and feasibility of the proposed protocol in children with a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder.Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders · 2025Article
- Sex differences in sleep deficits in mice with an autism-linked Shank3 mutation.Biology of sex differences · 2024Article
- Extraction of sleep information from clinical notes of Alzheimer's disease patients using natural language processing.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2024Article
- Developing a phenotype risk score for tic disorders in a large, clinical biobank.Translational psychiatry · 2024Article
- Stress in autism (STREAM): A study protocol on the role of circadian activity, sleep quality and sensory reactivity.PloS one · 2024Article
- Assessment of autonomic symptom scales in patients with neurodevelopmental diagnoses using electronic health record data.Research in autism spectrum disorders · 2023Article
- A practical approach to identifying autistic adults within the electronic health record.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2023Article
- Investigating the genetic pathways of insomnia in Autism Spectrum Disorder.Research in developmental disabilities · 2022Article
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Abstract
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backgroundSleep problems are common in people on the autism spectrum. This study reviews one detailed approach to querying the electronic health record (EHR) in a large tertiary care center. PATIENTS/
methodsWe developed methods for identifying people on the autism spectrum and defined their sleep problems using the key words, "sleep" or "melatonin", or International Classification of Diseases (ICD) codes. We examined treatment responses of these individuals to melatonin supplementation.
resultsSleep problems were documented in 86% of patients with ages ranging from 6 to 30 years old. Our specific keyword search yielded more patients with sleep diagnoses than ICD codes alone. About two-thirds of patients who received melatonin supplementation reported benefit from its use.
conclusionsOur study provides a framework for using deidentified medical records to characterize sleep, a common co-occurring condition, in people on the autism spectrum. Using specific keywords could be helpful in future work that queries the EHR.
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