Child Protection Team Consultation for Injuries Potentially Due to Child Abuse in Community Emergency Departments

Autor: Caitlin McVaney, John M. Leventhal, Heather J. Becker, Kirsten Bechtel, May Shum, Eugene D. Shapiro, Karen Della Guistina, Julie R. Gaither, Andrea G. Asnes, Patricia Morrell, Bonnie Mackenzie, Marc Auerbach, Gunjan Tiyyagura, Beth L. Emerson, Thomas Balga
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Academic Emergency Medicine. 28:70-81
ISSN: 1553-2712
1069-6563
DOI: 10.1111/acem.14132
Popis: OBJECTIVES Emergency care for children is provided predominantly in community emergency departments (CEDs), where abusive injuries frequently go unrecognized. Increasing access to regional child abuse experts may improve detection of abuse in CEDs. In three CEDs, we intervened to increase involvement of a regional hospital child protection team (CPT) for injuries associated with abuse in children
Databáze: OpenAIRE