Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Child Abuse Identification and Inpatient Treatment.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Child abuse is a leading cause of morbidity in early childhood. Accurate detection remains challenging.

Objective

To describe racial and ethnic disproportionalities in suspicion for child abuse (SCA) in pediatric patients admitted after traumatic injury.

Design, setting, and participants

This retrospective, multicenter cross-sectional study performed between 2022 and 2024 examined a representative national sample of children and adolescents (aged <18 years) admitted for pediatric trauma indications from 2006 to 2019. Data were from the Kids' Inpatient Database (KID), the largest publicly available all-payer pediatric inpatient care database. Patient demographics, injury severity, and hospitalization characteristics were classified by race and ethnicity and

SUBMITTER: Salimi-Jazi F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11656268 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature