Child maltreatment in MissouriCombining data for public health surveillance

Schnitzer, Patricia G.; Slusher, Paula; Vantuinen, M

doi:10.1016/s0749-3797(04)00203-x

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“…4,11,19 Hospital discharge data has been used to describe trends in hospitalizations of infants with traumatic brain injury, 9 track deaths related to child abuse, 10 and establish the incidence of conditions resulting from intentional injury such as abdominal trauma 23 and fractures. 12 Hospital discharge data have been proposed for use in a system to monitor the incidence of inflicted traumatic brain injury over time 11 and to monitor trends in serious physical abuse as a means to evaluate effects of prevention programs.…”

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“…Health professionals are recognized as being in an important position to document evidence of child abuse. [8][9][10] In the absence of population-based linked databases, hospital morbidity data could provide an efficient, nationally standardized source of information on child abuse. 4,8 Hospitals use a standard system to describe diagnoses related to medical care that is required by insurers.…”

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Trends in Hospitalization Rates and Severity of Injuries From Abuse in Young Children, 1997–2009

Farst

Ambadwar²,

King³

et al. 2013

Pediatrics

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OBJECTIVES: To examine trends in incidence of hospitalizations for injury from abuse in young children from 1997 through 2009 and to examine injury severity trends. METHODS: Cases were identified in the National Inpatient Sample database of the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project by using International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification codes for child maltreatment and external cause of injury for assault in children aged 0 through 3 years. Incidence was calculated by age, gender, and region. Trends in incidence of hospitalization and injury severity were calculated over time. RESULTS: Hospitalization rates for injury from abuse showed no significant change over the study period, ranging from a low of 2.10 per 10 000 children in 1998 to a high of 3.01 per 10 000 children in 2005 (P = .755). Children aged <1 had significantly higher hospitalization rates for injury from abuse (6.01 vs 1.12, P <.001) and higher mean injury severity scores compared with children aged 1 to 3 years (12.50, SD = 0.14 vs 8.56, SD = 0.21, P <.001). Injury severity scores increased significantly over the study period. CONCLUSIONS: No significant change in hospitalization rates for injury from abuse among young children was observed from 1997 to 2009. These results coincide with other reports of stable or modestly increasing rates of serious physical abuse or death in young children but not with reports from child welfare data showing declines in physical abuse during the same period. Diverse sources of data may provide important complementary methods to track child abuse.

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Trends in Hospitalization Rates and Severity of Injuries From Abuse in Young Children, 1997–2009

Farst

Ambadwar²,

King³

et al. 2013

Pediatrics

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“…who.int/classifications/icd/en/ diagnoses as an indicator of child maltreatment with promising results. A study by Schnitzer et al (2004) compared ICD-9-CM codes thought to suggest maltreatment to medical record indications of maltreatment. The authors concluded that ICD-9-CM diagnostic codes may be a useful means of improving child maltreatment surveillance.…”

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Neighborhood Characteristics, Child Maltreatment, and Child Injuries

McDonell

Skosireva

2009

Child Ind Res

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The study reported here aimed to advance research methods by demonstrating the utility of observational rating scale to measure neighborhood physical and social characteristics. In a related vein, the study clearly points to the need for additional, focused research on neighborhood effects on child safety. The need to identify or develop the best possible indicators of child well-being, especially at small areas of geography is one of the more pressing challenges for indicators research.

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“…In the selected articles, the events considered under surveillance were: communicable diseases 46,47 , non-communicable diseases 48,49 , birth defects 50,51 , violence 52 , and a wide variety of environmental risks 53,54,55,56,57 . Recent years have witnessed an effort by WHO, PAHO, national governments (including Brazil), and nongovernmental organizations in the search to establish and development surveillance capability for chronic non-communicable diseases, and many countries have already designed systems for the surveillance of chronic disease risk factors 58 .…”

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Health surveillance: proposal for a tool to evaluate technological arrangements in local health systems

Silva

Vieira-da-Silva

2008

Cad. Saúde Pública

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In order to identify the various meanings ascribed to health surveillance, the authors conducted a systematic review of articles published from January 1990 to August 2005 in the following databases: LILACS, SciELO, CAPES, MEDLINE, and Web of Science. A total of 144 abstracts were read and 18 full texts of Brazilian articles were selected for in-depth analysis, leading to the design of a typology for technological arrangements related to the various meanings: (i) traditional epidemiological surveillance, with communicable diseases as the main object; (ii) public health surveillance, as the municipal component of the national health surveillance system; and (iii) health surveillance, a technological mode of organizing health practices in a given territory. The proposed typology can contribute to research on surveillance practices in local health systems. It can also serve as a template for data collection and analysis. The meanings ascribed to the three types are discussed in light of public health's historical development as a field.

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Child maltreatment in MissouriCombining data for public health surveillance

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Trends in Hospitalization Rates and Severity of Injuries From Abuse in Young Children, 1997–2009

Trends in Hospitalization Rates and Severity of Injuries From Abuse in Young Children, 1997–2009

Neighborhood Characteristics, Child Maltreatment, and Child Injuries

Health surveillance: proposal for a tool to evaluate technological arrangements in local health systems

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