New data show that fewer children are dying of head injuries inflicted during abuse, but researchers from the CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control say more can be done to stop these preventable deaths. The researchers analyzed injury codes in the National Vital Statistics System based on the CDC’s definition of abusive head trauma fatalities—those caused by inflicted blunt impact or violent shaking—among US children younger than 5 years from 1999 to 2014. They used the agency’s own definition to distinguish abuse-related head trauma deaths from injuries coded as assault-related traumatic brain injury due to neglectful supervision, gunshot or stab wounds, or penetrating trauma...
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LA - en SN - 0098-7484 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2016.8382 ID - ref1 ER -