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  • Pediatric Health
  • Public Health
  • Forensic Medicine

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  • Child maltreatment (CM) is a significant public health issue with fatal outcomes.
  • Identifying risk factors for CM fatalities is crucial for clinical intervention and prevention.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To identify demographic and clinical risk factors associated with child maltreatment fatalities in hospitalized children.
  • To aid clinicians in recognizing at-risk children to reduce mortality.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of the 2012 Kids' Inpatient Database for children <5 years with CM diagnosis codes.
  • Bivariate and multivariate analyses to compare risk factors with in-hospital fatality.
  • Logistic regression to differentiate outcomes for specific maltreatment codes.

Main Results:

  • 10,825 children <5 years had inpatient CM diagnoses.
  • Clinical variables (drowning, ingestions, burns) and specific physical abuse diagnoses were significant risk factors for fatality.
  • Children with physical abuse diagnoses had ~3 times higher odds of dying.

Conclusions:

  • Infancy and lower income are risk factors, but injury type and clinician-identified physical abuse are more critical predictors of fatality.
  • Focusing on injury specifics and recognizing signs of physical abuse can improve outcomes for children at risk.