%0 Journal Article
%T Children's non-accidental injuries at an Accident and Emergency department: Does the age of the child and the type of injury matter?
%J Accident and emergency nursing
%D 2006
%A Bull, Leona
%V 14
%N 3
%P 155-159
%X Physical child abuse is a significant social and medical problem within the United Kingdom, and elsewhere. This study considers the role of emergency medical services in the detection of non-accidental childhood injury by examining paediatric attendances at a central London Accident and Emergency department over a two year period. There were 183 recorded episodes of non-accidental injury out of 17,582 paediatric attendances to the A&amp;E department over two years. At bivariate level, non-accidental injury was associated with the age of the patient, and the primary clinical diagnosis groups of wounds, poisoning and burns (p&lt;.01). Attendances by children over the age of 10 years, along with attendances for the treatment of wounds or burns, were statistically significant multivariate predictors of non-accidental injury being recorded in A&amp;E (p&lt;.001). This study shows that about 1 in 100 pediatric attendances at A&amp;E are recorded as non-accidental injury. Young children are less likely to be recorded as non-accidentally injured, compared to adolescents. Health professionals need to be vigilant to the possibility of non-accidental injury for all children using emergency health services.   <p>Language: en</p>
%G en
%I Elsevier Publishing
%@ 0965-2302
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aaen.2006.05.005