Improving Psychiatric Hospital Care for Pediatric Patients with Autism Spectrum Disorders and Intellectual Disabilities

Table 1

Demographics and outcome measures.

Category	10/2001–11/2002 Psychiatric inpatient program	1/2009–12/2009 NSC inpatient program	1/2009–12/2009 NSC day program	NSC patients who completed admission and discharge ABC-C data
Number or patients	12 (10 males)	26 (21 males)	79 (62 males)	43 (33 males)
Mean age (range)	13.7 (3–19)	12.4 (5–17)	10.7 (5–17)	11.2 (5–17)
# Diagnosed ASD (with and without an ID)	6 (50%)	20 (76.9%)	60 (75.9%)	34 (79.1%)
# Diagnosed ID without an ASD	6 (50%)	4 (15.4%)	8 (10.1%)	6 (14.0%)
Mean # comorbid medical diagnoses per patient	0.75	1.46	1.17	1.33
Mean # comorbid psychiatric diagnoses per patient	2.67	1.58	1.55	1.67
Mean # days of stay (range)	45 (13–180)	26.1 (10–56)	12.6 (1–41)	13.2 (1–41)
Recidivism rate^*	33.3%	11.5%	10.3%	20.9%

^∗Recidivism-patients readmitted to the NSC program within the 2009 calendar year.