TY - JOUR PY - 2022// TI - A survey on cases of serious and high-risk child abuse with trauma using the database of health insurance claims JO - Studies in health technology and informatics A1 - Iwao, Tomohide A1 - Sakai, Michi SP - 1070 EP - 1071 VL - 290 IS - N2 - In recent years, the annual number of child deaths due to child abuse has been around 50 per year in Japan. On the other hand, the actual situation of dangerous physical abuse cases such as abuse with residual has not been clarified. Therefore, this study investigated children with trauma suspected of being physically abused, using the health insurance claims data of Japan. There were cases with trauma which are likely to have sequelae. Since this study used the sampling data, there is a high possibility that there will be a considerable number of cases of high-risk abuse.

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LA - en SN - 0926-9630 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/SHTI220272 ID - ref1 ER -