Perpetrator accounts in infant abusive head trauma brought about by a shaking event

Child Abuse and Neglect

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1347-1358

  Biron, Dean ^a,c   Shelton, Doug ^b  

^a State Crime Operations Command   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND HEALTH   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Head injury; Inflicted injury; Perpetrator accounts; Physical abuse; Shaken baby syndrome

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD ABUSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NEWBORN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

CHILD ABUSE; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SHAKEN BABY SYNDROME;

EID: 27944464903     PISSN: 01452134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2005.05.003     Document Type: Article

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