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Article: Emergency Medicine Specialty Reports - Physical Abuse of Children: Epidemiology of Child Abuse in the United States.
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- Emergency Medicine Reports
- Article date:
- June 30, 2003
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Physical Abuse of Children: Epidemiology of Child Abuse in the United States
Cutaneous Injuries, Fractures, and Abusive Head Trauma
Author: Kirsten Bechtel, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Section of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.
Peer Reviewer: Steven M. Winograd, MD, FACEP, Attending Physician, Emergency Department, Uniontown Hospital, Uniontown, PA.
Abuse of the child is a social blight that has been present since the beginning of recorded history, and unfortunately, is still very present in the 21st century. Child abuse can be difficult to recognize, ...