Social Intuition and Social Information in Physical Child Abuse Evaluation and Diagnosis.

ABSTRACT: Poor and minority children with injuries concerning for abuse are evaluated and diagnosed for abuse differentially. We hypothesized that 2 steps in the decision-making process would influence evaluation and diagnosis: social intuition from meeting the family and objective social information associated with child abuse risk. Between 2009 and 2013, 32 child abuse pediatricians (CAPs) submitted 730 child abuse consultations including original medical evaluations and diagnoses. CAPs evaluated and diagnosed each other's cases. Comparisons of evaluations and diagnoses were made by levels of social understanding available to the CAP: meeting the family (social intuition and information), reading the case (social information), and reading the case without social information. Evaluations were compa

SUBMITTER: Keenan HT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5654391 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature