Fractures and traumatic brain injuries: Abuse versus accidents in a US database of hospitalized children

Pediatrics

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Leventhal, John M ^a   Martin, Kimberly D ^a   Asnes, Andrea G ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Accidents; Injury; Maltreatment

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; CHILDHOOD INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; FEMALE; FRACTURE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL FRACTURE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BRAIN INJURIES; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD, HOSPITALIZED; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SKULL FRACTURES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77954365863     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2009-1076     Document Type: Article

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