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

Traumatic brain injury is a leading cause of death and disability in the pediatric age group.
Causes of injury vary with child developmental age, with more inflicted injuries in infants, fall …

OBJECTIVE. The goal was to examine the influence of sociodemographic characteristics
and health care system factors on the utilization of hospital resources by US children≤ 17 …

The majority of the commentaries focused on excessive crying and colic and included two
major themes: the consideration of proximate physiological mechanisms, and challenges to …

Objective. Diagnosing inflicted traumatic brain injury (TBI) in young children is difficult in
practice. Comparisons of children with inflicted and noninflicted TBI may help to identify …

Infants with minor abusive injuries are at risk for more serious abusive injury, including
abusive head trauma (AHT). Our study objective was to determine if children with AHT had …

Background The diagnosis of inflicted head injury (IHI) or accidental trauma (AT) in infants is
based on clinical, radiological, and/or ophthalmological findings such as subdural …

Purpose This review summarizes protein biomarkers in mild and severe traumatic brain
injury in adults and children and presents a strategy for conducting rationally designed …

Head trauma from abuse, including shaken baby syndrome, is a devastating and potentially
lethal form of infant physical abuse first recognized in the early 1970s. What has been less …

Low incidence rates and economic recession have hampered interpretation of educational
prevention efforts to reduce abusive head trauma (AHT). Our objective was to determine …