Variation in Use of Neuroimaging in the Care of Infants Undergoing Subspecialty Evaluations for Abuse: A Multicenter Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

1) To quantify hospital-level variation in use of neuroimaging to screen for intracranial injury (ICI) among infants without overt signs or symptoms of head trauma undergoing subspecialty evaluations for physical abuse; 2) to assess for disproportionality in neuroimaging based on race and ethnicity and insurance type.

Methods

This was a cross-sectional study of infants age <12 months receiving subspecialty child abuse evaluations from February 2021 to December 2022 at 10 sites in CAPNET, a multicenter child abuse research network. Infants were included if they underwent a skeletal survey and lacked overt signs of possible ICI or blunt head injury. Outcome was completion of neuroimaging (computed tomography [CT] or magnetic resonance imaging [MRI]). Multivariable l

SUBMITTER: Alpert E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12306380 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature