In the course of providing health care services to children, pediatricians often encounter
families affected by substance use, distribution, manufacturing, or cultivation that ultimately …

Child maltreatment includes physical abuse and neglect, and happens in all countries and
cultures. Child maltreatment usually results from interactions between several risk factors …

Child physical abuse is an important cause of pediatric morbidity and mortality and is
associated with major physical and mental health problems that can extend into adulthood …

Importance Bruising caused by physical abuse is the most common antecedent injury to be
overlooked or misdiagnosed as nonabusive before an abuse-related fatality or near-fatality …

OBJECTIVE: Relatively minor abusive injuries can precede severe physical abuse in infants.
Our objective was to determine how often abused infants have a previous history of …

This Clinical Report was reaffirmed November 2021. Fractures are common injuries caused
by child abuse. Although the consequences of failing to diagnose an abusive injury in a …

This clinical practice guideline applies to infants younger than 1 year and is intended for
pediatric clinicians. This guideline has 3 primary objectives. First, it recommends the …

OBJECTIVE: Our objective was to conduct a pilot study to identify discriminating bruising
characteristics and to model those findings into a decision tool for screening children at high …

Aims: To investigate what patterns of bruising are diagnostic or suggestive of child abuse by
means of a systematic review. Methods: All language literature search 1951–2004. Included …

Non-accidental trauma (NAT) is a leading cause of childhood traumatic injury and death in
the United States. It is estimated that 1,400 children died from maltreatment in the United …