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040 _aAFVC
100 _aVaithianathan, Rhema
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245 _aInjury and mortality among children identified as at high risk of maltreatment
_cRhema Vaithianathan, Bénédicte Rouland, and Emily Putnam-Hornstein
260 _bAmerican Academy of Pediatrics,
_c2018
500 _aPediatrics, w018, 141(2): e20172882.
520 _aOBJECTIVES: To determine if children identified by a predictive risk model as at “high risk” of maltreatment are also at elevated risk of injury and mortality in early childhood. METHODS: We built a model that predicted a child’s risk of a substantiated finding of maltreatment by child protective services for children born in New Zealand in 2010. We assigned risk scores to the 2011 birth cohort, and flagged children as “very high risk” if they were in the top 10% of the score distribution for maltreatment. We also set a less conservative threshold for defining “high risk” and examined children in the top 20%. We then compared the incidence of injury and mortality rates between very high-risk and high-risk children and the remainder of the birth cohort. RESULTS: Children flagged at both 10% and 20% risk thresholds had much higher postneonatal mortality rates than other children (4.8 times and 4.2 times greater, respectively), as well as a greater relative risk of hospitalization (2 times higher and 1.8 times higher, respectively). CONCLUSIONS: Models that predict risk of maltreatment as defined by child protective services substantiation also identify children who are at heightened risk of injury and mortality outcomes. If deployed at birth, these models could help medical providers identify children in families who would benefit from more intensive supports. (Authors' abstract). Record #8201
650 _aCHILD ABUSE
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650 _aCHILD NEGLECT
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650 _aDATA ANALYSIS
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650 _aHEALTH
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650 _aMORTALITY
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650 _aPREDICTIVE RISK MODELLING
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650 _aWOUNDS AND INJURIES
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651 4 _aNEW ZEALAND
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700 _aRouland, Bénédicte
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700 _aPutnam-Hornstein, Emily
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773 0 _tPediatrics, w018, 141(2): e20172882.
830 _aPediatrics
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856 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2017-2882
_zDOI: 10.1542/peds.2017-2882
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_cARTICLE