Autism Research Database - Location Project Details

Project Element	Element Description
Project Title Project Title	Big data, important questions, health and wellbeing
Principal Investigator Principal Investigator	Trollor, Julian
Description Description	This project has two primary overarching objectives: (1) To investigate reason for encounters problems managed, referrals being made, and medications prescribed by Australian GPs to young autistic people in comparison with those without an autism diagnosis; (2) To use the existing New South Wales state-based linked administrative data infrastructure to explore the potential of an existing autism flag or identifier to examine mortality, cause of death and health outcomes for autistic Australians and compare these to the non-autistic population.
Funder Funder	Cooperative Research Centre for Living with Autism
Funding Country Funding Country	Australia
Fiscal Year Funding Fiscal Year Funding	36000
Current Award Period Current Award Period	2016-2017
Strategic Plan Question Strategic Plan Question	Question 5: What Kinds of Services and Supports are Needed to Maximize Quality of Life for People on the Autism Spectrum?
Funder’s Project Link Funder’s Project Link	External Project Page
Institution Institution	University of New South Wales
Institute Location Institute Location	Australia
Project Number Project Number	3.038RI
Government or Private Government or Private	Private
History/Related Projects History/Related Projects	N/A