Child abuse experts disagree about the threshold for mandated reporting

Clinical Pediatrics

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 321-329

  Levi, Benjamin H ^a,b   Crowell, Kathryn ^b  

^a PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PENN STATE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

child abuse; ethics; mandated reporting; reasonable suspicion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD ABUSE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MANDATORY REPORTING; MEDICAL EXPERT; PROBABILITY; RACE; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRAINING; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MANDATORY REPORTING; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE;

EID: 79953097184     PISSN: 00099228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0009922810389170     Document Type: Article

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