TY - JOUR PY - 1977// TI - Munchausen syndrome by proxy: the hinterland of child abuse JO - Lancet A1 - Meadow, R. SP - 343 EP - 345 VL - 2 IS - 8033 N2 - Some patients consistently produce false stories and fabricate evidence, so causing themselves needless hospital investigations and operations. Here are described parents who, by falsification, caused their children innumerable harmful hospital procedures--a sort of Munchausen syndrome by proxy.

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