TY  - SER
AU  - Kelly, Patrick
AU  - Thompson, John M. D.
AU  - Rungan, Santuri
AU  - Ameratunga, Shanthi
AU  - Jelleyman, Timothy
AU  - Percival, Teuila
AU  - Elder, Hinemoa
AU  - Mitchell, Edwin A.
TI  - Do data from child protective services and the police enhance modelling of perinatal risk for paediatric abusive head trauma?: a retrospective case-control study
PY  - 2019///
PB  - BMJ Open, 
KW  - ABUSIVE HEAD TRAUMA
KW  - CHILD PROTECTION
KW  - DATA ANALYSIS
KW  - PREDICTIVE RISK MODELLING
KW  - TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY
KW  - NEW ZEALAND
N1  - BMJ Open, 2019, 9: e024199
N2  - This study is a case-control study examining risk factors for paediatric abusive head trauma (AHT), using data collected well before the outcome of interest took place.

This study examined data from multiple sources, matching police and child protective service records for families with perinatal health records for newborn babies.

This was a retrospective study, so it was not possible to control the quality and consistency of data collection across health, police and child protective services.

Conclusion: Family involvement with child protective services or police is associated with increased risk of AHT. However, accessing such data at the time of birth would
add little predictive power to a risk model derived from routine health information. (From the article). Reprinted in Patrick Kelly's doctoral lthesis (Chapter 6) in 2020 - follow the link. Record #6185
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-024199
UR  - https://library.nzfvc.org.nz/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=6974
ER  -