Racial disparities in child abuse medicine.

Cameron M Rosenthal; Donna M Parker; Lindsay A Thompson

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Racial disparities in child abuse medicine.

November 3, 2021

Rosenthal CM, Parker DM, Thompson LA. JAMA Pediatr. 2022;176(2):119-120.

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The care of child abuse victims is affected by resource, racial and infrastructure challenges. This commentary describes how the systemic weaknesses catalyzed by poor data collection approaches contribute to misdiagnosis and suggests that successes be mined to minimize the proliferation of continued disparities in this patient population.

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