OBJECTIVES Primary care clinicians participating in the Child Abuse Reporting Experience Study did not report all suspected physical child abuse to child protective services. This evaluation of study data seeks (1) to identify factors clinicians weighed when deciding whether to report injuries they suspected might have been caused by child abuse; (2) to describe clinicians' management strategie...

Urgent attention is required to tackle the problem of child and adolescent injury across the world. There have been considerable shifts in the epidemiological patterns of child deaths; while great progress has been made in preventing infectious diseases, the exposure of children and adolescents to the risks of injury appear to be increasing and will continue to do so in the future. The issue of...

BACKGROUND While child maltreatment is recognised as a global problem, solid epidemiological data on the prevalence of child maltreatment and risk factors associated with child maltreatment is lacking in Australia and internationally. There have been recent calls for action to improve the evidence-base capturing and describing child abuse, particularly those data captured within the health sect...

OBJECTIVE To examine the contributions of injury severity, physical and cognitive disability, child and family function to outcome 30 months after traumatic brain injury (TBI) in children. DESIGN A prospective, longitudinal, between group design, comparing function before and after injury across three levels of injury severity. SUBJECTS One hundred and fifty children, 3.0-12.11 years old, a...

OBJECTIVE Current guidelines for optimal restraint of children in motor vehicles recommend the center rear seating location for installing a child-restraint system. However, recent research on child occupants in child-restraint system has brought this into question. The objective of this study was to describe seating position patterns among appropriately restrained child occupants aged 0 to 3 y...

The Rhode Island Child Death and Injury Review Team was formally established in 1998 by the Rhode Island Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF). In spring 2004 the review of child fatalities occurring from January 1, 2000, onward became the responsibility of the Rhode Island Child Death Review Team (RICDRT), coordinated by the state’s Chief Medical Examiner. Members include represent...