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The Impact of Media Reporting of High‐Profile Cases on Child Protection Medical Assessments
Author(s) -
Ray Samiran,
Conn Kelly,
Liebeschuetz Susan,
Costoli Verina,
Tan Meng
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
child abuse review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.569
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1099-0852
pISSN - 0952-9136
DOI - 10.1002/car.2214
Subject(s) - referral , accidental , child protection , consistency (knowledge bases) , medicine , family medicine , medical emergency , psychology , nursing , physics , geometry , mathematics , acoustics
Key Practitioner Messages High profile media cases can alter the referral patterns for child protection medical assessment. Although the increase in the total number of referrals may not be surprising, the increase in the proportion of children with signs suggestive of non‐accidental injury is worrying. Ideally, evidenced based guidelines for the referral of children for child protection medical assessments should be formulated. Failing this, a strong inter‐disciplinary working relationship may improve consistency in referral patterns.