A fatal review: Exploring how children’s deaths are reported in the United States

Posey, Brianne M.; Neuilly, Melanie-Angela

doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2017.09.005

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“…The authors recognized that their study has limited generalizability based on only two locations of death review. However, their conclusions are still applicable in that they recommended more vigorous and standardized training for both coroners and medical examiners (Posey & Neuilly, 2017).…”

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Child Maltreatment Fatality Review: Purposes, Processes, Outcomes, and Challenges

McCarroll

Fisher

Cozza

et al. 2020

Trauma, Violence, & Abuse

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Better understanding of the causes and circumstances of maltreatment deaths of children is needed to prevent tragedy. The purpose of this article is to facilitate understanding of child maltreatment fatality review processes and their outcomes. A literature review was conducted through searches of the databases PubMed, PsycINFO, and EMBASE and through citations in publications. Over 165 publications were reviewed and 55 were selected for inclusion. Papers were from the United States, England, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Netherlands, France, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, Japan, and China. These were included if they described fatality review goals, authority, procedures, and outcomes. Although we searched databases on a continual basis during the preparation of this review, we could have missed publications, particularly those in newspapers and journals that are not included in large-scale databases or cited in other articles. Improvement of fatality review requires diligence by individuals and organizations that provide information to the reviewers. Among challenges to the review process are varying criteria for review, misclassifications of the manner of death, inadequate or incomplete forensic and medical investigations, lack of information about the perpetrator, diversity of the community, concealment of the cause of death by parents or other caregivers, and disagreement among reviewers about the results of their inquiries. Institutional challenges are also present, which include the need for funding, privacy issues on obtaining information, updating reviewer training, lack of follow-up by institutional authorities on the recommendations of the reviews, and research facilitating the review of maltreatment fatalities.

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Child Maltreatment Fatality Review: Purposes, Processes, Outcomes, and Challenges

McCarroll

Fisher

Cozza

et al. 2020

Trauma, Violence, & Abuse

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“…Systemic models for reviewing individual cases can identify fact patterns associated with adequately and inadequately protected children (Brandon et al, 2012; Douglas & Lee, 2020). United States federal law requires every state to file child fatality reports, but there are no federal guidelines standardising the information, structure and composition of the multidisciplinary teams that create the individual case reports (Durfee et al, 2009; McCarroll et al, 2021; Posey & Neuilly, 2017).…”

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Child Fatality Individual Case Reports: A 24‐Year National State‐by‐State Review

Mantell,

Chong,

Takeno

et al. 2023

Child Abuse Review

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This study focused on the content of 1186 Child Fatality Review Board individual case reports collected nationally over a 24‐year period (1995–2019). This information, in contrast to group data, may yield important insights into the causative factors, especially for child fatality resulting from neglect and inflicted injury. The reports were collected from six of the 50 states and evaluated for the quality and amount of information. They were also surveyed for data identifying causative factors for neglect and inflicted injury. Only 25 (2 per cent) of 1186 reports that are publicly available contained sufficient information about the four major causative factors—cause of death, prior child protection agency involvement by the family, evidence of professional negligence or error and family history of at‐risk circumstances. The 25 cases were then reviewed and coded for presence of information about these factors. The findings demonstrate the need for federal intervention to provide specific guidelines for the states to track their cases, to use a common nomenclature, to investigate common causative factors and to practice common reporting procedures. In this way, a robust national database can be developed.

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“…For more how child death certificate coding is subjective and inconsistent across jurisdictions, seePosey & Neuilly (2017).…”

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Boys at Risk Beyond Male Fragility: The Gender Gap in Child Injury Deaths in the United States, 2000-2020

Blumenthal,

Martin

2023

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For decades, scholars in demography, public health, and medicine have documented a gender gap in early childhood mortality rates, primarily attributing this gap to male biological fragility (susceptibility to disease and perinatal conditions and disorders). However, unintentional injury is a leading cause of death for boys in early childhood (0-4 years of age), suggesting social causation of at least part of the gap. Using restricted detailed mortality and compressed vital statistics data from the U.S. over the period 2000-2020, we show that accounts of the innate fragility of boys have been overemphasized. While boys have higher rates of leading natural causes of death in infancy, they have similar rates to girls between the 1-4 years of age. We also show that boys have higher risk of mortality among causes where adult supervision is a key contributing factor, such as drowning, poisoning, falls, or firearms. These patterns have remained largely unchanged over time. Extending prior work on supervision and incorporating gender theory, this paper suggests that a gendered supervision context likely accounts for some of the gender differences in fatalities in early childhood.

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A fatal review: Exploring how children’s deaths are reported in the United States

Cited by 6 publications

References 56 publications

Child Maltreatment Fatality Review: Purposes, Processes, Outcomes, and Challenges

Child Maltreatment Fatality Review: Purposes, Processes, Outcomes, and Challenges

Child Fatality Individual Case Reports: A 24‐Year National State‐by‐State Review

Boys at Risk Beyond Male Fragility: The Gender Gap in Child Injury Deaths in the United States, 2000-2020

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