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This study describes the problems managed and medications prescribed by general practitioners in Australia during encounters where an autism spectrum disorder was recorded. Information was collected from 2000 to 2014 as part of the Bettering the Evaluation and Care of Health programme. Encounters where patients were aged less than 25\u2009years and autism spectrum disorder was recorded as one of the reasons for encounter and\/or problems managed ( n\u2009=\u2009579) were compared to all other Bettering the Evaluation and Care of Health programme encounters with patients aged less than 25\u2009years ( n\u2009=\u2009281,473). At \u2018autism spectrum disorder\u2019 encounters, there was a significantly higher management rate of psychological problems, and significantly lower management rates of skin, respiratory and general\/unspecified problems, than at \u2018non-autism spectrum disorder\u2019 encounters. 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