@article{ref1,
title="Child Abuse Experts Disagree About the Threshold for Mandated Reporting",
journal="Clinical pediatrics",
year="2011",
author="Levi, Benjamin H. and Crowell, Kathryn R.",
volume="50",
number="4",
pages="321-329",
abstract="Context: Though reasonable suspicion serves as the standard threshold for when to report suspected child abuse, there is little guidance how to interpret the term. Objective: To examine how experts on child abuse interpret reasonable suspicion using 2 probability frameworks. Participants: Anonymous survey of clinical and research experts on child abuse. Main outcome measures: Responses on ordinal and visual analog scales quantifying the probability needed for &quot;suspicion of child abuse&quot; to rise to reasonable suspicion. Results: A total of 81 of 117 experts completed the survey (69% response rate, mean age 47 years, 69% female). On both the ordinal probability scale (rank order on a differential diagnosis) and the estimated probability scale (1% to 99% likelihood), experts demonstrated wide variability in defining reasonable suspicion, with no statistically significant differences found for age, race, gender, professional training, seniority, or prior education on reasonable suspicion. Conclusions: This study found no consensus in how experts on child abuse interpret reasonable suspicion.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0009-9228",
doi="10.1177/0009922810389170",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0009922810389170"
}