Elk Grove Village, IL—(ENEWSPF)—October 6, 2015. Child physical abuse is common, with more than 119,000 victims and 600 deaths every year in the U.S. Early symptoms of abuse are also commonly missed by health care providers.
For the study, “Testing for Abuse in Children With Sentinel Injuries,” in the November 2015 Pediatrics (published online Oct. 5), researchers investigated whether routinely screening all children with certain “sentinel” injuries for child abuse would identify more…
