Named/designated doctor status and judgement in child-protection scenarios.
Four child-protection scenarios were sent to 200 named/designated and non-named/non-designated doctors. The respondents judged each scenario as abuse or accident and indicated their degree of certainty. There was a 71% response rate. There were no significant differences in judgement or degrees of certainty of judgement between the two groups.
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Royal Bolton Hospital, Minerva Road, Farnworth, Bolton. Simon.Power@rbh.nhs.uk
D000059:Accidents; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002669:Child Welfare; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D015588:Observer Variation; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000209:etiology