title: [Algorithm of battered children at entrance to a third-level pediatric hospital center].
abstract: Many factors intervene in the diagnosis and treatment of the battered child, including all types of maltreatment. This factors are related with the patient and his social familiar background. An algorithm was established at the Department of Internal Medicine of the National Institute of Pediatrics (INP) during 10 months, that indicates the steps to be followed when a patient with suspicion of maltreatment is hospitalized. The patients were compared with others, treated with the same problem, hospitalized in other services. 37 patients were studied from which, 17 were physically assaulted, 3 sexually abused, 5 socially deprived, 9 psychologically deprived and in 3 patients maltreatment was discharged. The final algorithm signals the routes to be followed when this type of patients enter a pediatric hospital. Battered child; algorithm in.
authors.affiliation: Depto. de Medicina Interna, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, México, D.F.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Loredo-Abdalá
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Oldak-Skvirsky
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Carbajal-Rodríguez
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Reynes-Manzur
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006776:Hospitals, Pediatric; D006801:Humans; D010343:Patient Admission
vernacular_title: Algoritmo del niño maltratado a su ingreso a un centro hospitalario pediátrico de tercer nivel.