Out-of-Home Care versus In-home Care for Children Who Have Been Maltreated: A Systematic Review of Health and Wellbeing Outcomes

Child Abuse Review

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 251-272

  Maclean, Miriam J ^a   Sims, Scott ^a   O’Donnell, Melissa ^a   Gilbert, Ruth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

child maltreatment; developmental outcomes; out of home care; systematic review

Indexed keywords

CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOME CARE; HUMAN; MALE; NARRATIVE; PHYSICIAN; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELECTION BIAS; SYNTHESIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; WELLBEING;

EID: 84992045339     PISSN: 09529136     EISSN: 10990852     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/car.2437     Document Type: Article

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