Clinical Practice Guidelines for Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Adults and Children in the UK: A Narrative Review
BMC Psychiatry
Hayes, J., Ford, T., et al. (2018).
BMC Psychiatry, 18(1), 222.
This narrative review investigates the available recommendations for identifying autism spectrum disorder in children and adults.
Wellcome Trust (United Kingdom)
2009 to June 2017
Clinical practice guidelines from the United Kingdom
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Findings indicated that the individual guidelines presented a coherent and systematic assessment process, but the varied recommendations between guidelines could make complex and confusing. The review argues that, "clinical guidelines for autism diagnosis illuminate the process of diagnosis as social rather than straightforwardly clinical, and that judgement is required to consider a number of sometimes contradictory and complex social factors" (p. 21).
