@article{ref1,
title="‘Battered pets’: features that raise suspicion of non‐accidental injury",
journal="Journal of Small Animal Practice",
year="2001",
author="Munr0, H. m. C. and Thrusfield, M. V.",
volume="42",
number="5",
pages="218-226",
abstract="A study of veterinarians' perceptions, and experience, of non-accidental injury (NAI) to pets was undertaken using an anonymous questionnaire distributed to a random sample of 1000 small animal practitioners in the UK. NAI was acknowledged by 91-3 per cent (95 per cent confidence interval, 88-2 to 93-9 per cent) of the 404 respondents who returned questionnaires, of whom 48-3 per cent (95 per cent confidence interval, 43-4 to 53-1 per cent) had either suspected or seen NAI. Four hundred and forty-eight cases were documented, predominantly in dogs (243) and cats (182). Factors either raising suspicion, or facilitating recognition, of NAI included: implication of a particular person, features of the history, referral agency involvement, behaviour of the owner and/or the animal, nature of the injuries, and socioeconomic class of owners. Additionally, sexual abuse and suspected cases of Munchausen syndrome by proxy were recorded.<p />",
language="",
issn="0022-4510",
doi="10.1111/j.1748-5827.2001.tb02024.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-5827.2001.tb02024.x"
}