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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Neurol. 2015 Feb 16;52(6):585–591.e2. doi: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2015.02.007

Table 2.

Diagnostician and age of diagnosis.

Classic RTT
Diagnostician Number Percent Median
Age (y)
Interquartile
Range
Minimum
Age
Maximum
Age
Mean
Rank*

Pediatrician 48 5.2% 2.4 1.8–3.5 1.2 18.1 379.4
Developmental pediatrician 273 29.7% 3.0 2.0–4.2 0.6 34.1 465.0
Neurologist 324 35.3% 2.7 2.0–4.4 0.8 31.0 446.0
Geneticist 204 22.2% 2.5 2.0–3.5 0.9 40.0 415.6
Other specialist 23 2.5% 2.8 2.1–4.5 1.5 14.8 465.8
Other primary care provider 2 0.2% n.c. n.c. 3.1 20.0 703.8
Family member or teacher 12 1.3% 3.3 2.0–13.7 1.3 53.0 530.3
Missing 16 1.7%

Overall 919 100.0% 2.7 2.0–4.1 0.6 53.0
Atypical RTT
Diagnostician Number Percent Median
Age (y)
Interquartile
Range
Minimum
Age
Maximum
Age
Mean
Rank*

Pediatrician 4 2.4% 5.7 1.6–35.4 1.5 44.1 84.0
Developmental pediatrician 50 30.1% 5.1 2.5–8.1 1.4 37.1 90.1
Neurologist 55 33.1% 3.5 2.4–6.1 1.0 30.8 76.5
Geneticist 44 26.5% 2.9 2.1–5.1 0.7 27.0 67.2
Other specialist 3 1.8% 7.0 n.c. 5.3 10.0 120.8
Other primary care provider 1 0.6% 25.8 n.c. n.c. n.c. 154.0
Family member or teacher 1 0.6% 8.0 n.c. n.c. n.c. 128.0
Missing 8 4.8%

Overall 166 100.0% 3.8 2.3–6.9 0.7 44.0
*

p = .06, n.c. = not calculated