“…We have seen renewed legal challenges to diagnoses of AHT in Sweden and Norway, particularly following the 2016 report on traumatic shaking by the Swedish Health Technology Assessment Agency 2 3,4 and others welcoming it 5 . As physicians we know that that each year many infants present to Norwegian emergency rooms with intracranial injuries, such as subdural haematomas, brain injuries and retinal haemorrhages.…”
Section: Pat # Age Sex Symptoms and Findings Onset Hc Rh Signs Of Imp...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…2 The report generated controversy and debate, with many authors criticising it 3,4 and others welcoming it. 5 As physicians we know that that each year many infants present to Norwegian emergency rooms with intracranial injuries, such as subdural haematomas, brain injuries and retinal haemorrhages. Some have associated osseous and cutaneous injuries.…”
“…We have seen renewed legal challenges to diagnoses of AHT in Sweden and Norway, particularly following the 2016 report on traumatic shaking by the Swedish Health Technology Assessment Agency 2 3,4 and others welcoming it 5 . As physicians we know that that each year many infants present to Norwegian emergency rooms with intracranial injuries, such as subdural haematomas, brain injuries and retinal haemorrhages.…”
Section: Pat # Age Sex Symptoms and Findings Onset Hc Rh Signs Of Imp...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…2 The report generated controversy and debate, with many authors criticising it 3,4 and others welcoming it. 5 As physicians we know that that each year many infants present to Norwegian emergency rooms with intracranial injuries, such as subdural haematomas, brain injuries and retinal haemorrhages. Some have associated osseous and cutaneous injuries.…”
“…Donohoe (2003),Findley et al (2012), andLynøe et al (2017b) have drawn substantial criticism(Hellgren et al 2017;Lucas et al 2017;Lynøe et al 2017aLynøe et al , 2018Saunders et al 2017;Laurent-Vannier et al 2018;Cohen 2019;Lynøe and Eriksson 2019;Janson 2020). Nevertheless, the shaken baby syndrome literature is riddled with circular arguments.…”
Exploring the early development of an area of medical literature can inform contemporary medical debates. Different methods of inference include deduction, induction, abduction, and inference to the best explanation. I argue that early shaken baby research is best understood as using abduction to tentatively suggest that infants with unexplained intracranial and ocular bleeding have been assaulted. However, this tentative conclusion was quickly interpreted, by some at least, as a general rule that infants with these pathological signs were certainly cases of abuse. Rather than focusing on inductive arguments, researchers today may be better off focusing on making a compelling inference to the best explanation.
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