Hospital-based multidisciplinary teams can prevent unnecessary child abuse reports and out-of-home placements

Child Abuse and Neglect

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 623-629

  Wallace, Gregory H ^a   Makoroff, Kathi L ^a,b   Malott, Heidi A ^a   Shapiro, Robert A ^a,b  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fractures; Multidisciplinary child abuse team; Physical abuse; Reporting

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE FRAGILITY; CHILD ABUSE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FRACTURE; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA; PATIENT REFERRAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

CHILD ABUSE; FEMALE; FOSTER HOME CARE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MALE; MANDATORY REPORTING; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; POLICE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIAL WORK;

EID: 34447512519     PISSN: 01452134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2006.12.010     Document Type: Article

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