Simple intervention to improve detection of child abuse in emergency departments

Date

2002

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Publisher

BMJ Open

Abstract

Problem Child abuse is easily overlooked in a busy emergency department. Design Two stage audit of 1000 children before and after introduction of reminder flowchart. Background and setting An emergency department in a suburban teaching hospital seeing about 4000 injured preschool children a year.

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Keywords

physical abuse, child abuse, assessment, screening

Citation

Benger, J. R., & Pearce, A. V. (2002). Simple intervention to improve detection of child abuse in emergency departments. BMJ, 324(7340), 780-782.

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