Identifying Maltreatment in Infants and Young Children Presenting with Fractures: Does Age Matter?

CONCLUSION: Among children who were not in an independently verified incident, the authors strongly recommend routine evaluation for child abuse, including specialty child abuse consultation, for: (1) children aged less than 3 years old presenting with rib fractures, and (2) children aged less than 18 months presenting with humeral or femoral fractures.
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Source: Accident and Emergency Nursing - September 4, 2020 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Mitchell IC, Norat BJ, Auerbach M, Bressler CJ, Como J, Escobar MA, Flynn-O'Brien KT, Lindberg DM, Nickoles T, Rosado N, Weeks K, Maguire S Tags: Acad Emerg Med Source Type: research