Estimating the Relevance of Historical Red Flags in the Diagnosis of Abusive Head Trauma.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To replicate the previously published finding that the absence of a history of trauma in a child with obvious traumatic head injuries demonstrates high specificity and high positive predictive value (PPV) for abusive head trauma.

Study design

This was a secondary analysis of a deidentified, cross-sectional dataset containing prospective data on 346 young children with acute head injury hospitalized for intensive care across 18 sites between 2010 and 2013, to estimate the diagnostic relevance of a caregiver's specific denial of any trauma, changing history of accidental trauma, or history of accidental trauma inconsistent with the child's gross motor skills. Cases were categorized as definite or not definite abusive head trauma based solely on patients' clinical and

SUBMITTER: Hymel KP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7042052 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature