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23.02.2017 | Commentary
Initial response of the European Society of Paediatric Radiology and Society for Pediatric Radiology to the Swedish Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Assessment of Social Services’ document on the triad of shaken baby syndrome
verfasst von:
Amaka C. Offiah, Sabah Servaes, Catherine S. Adamsbaum, Maria I. Argyropoulou, Katharine E. Halliday, Tim Jaspan, Catherine M. Owens, Maria Raissaki, Karen Rosendahl, Neil Stoodley, Rick R. Van Rijn, Michael J. Callahan, Taylor Chung, James S. Donaldson, Diego Jaramillo, Thomas L. Slovis, Peter J. Strouse
Erschienen in:
Pediatric Radiology
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Ausgabe 4/2017
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Excerpt
To paraphrase the author of a recent editorial, “Abusive neurotrauma exists” [
1]. We are therefore concerned by the recent report on the validity of abusive head trauma/shaken baby syndrome commissioned by the Swedish Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Assessment of Social Services (SBU) [
2]. This systematic review identified over 3,000 publications, which the experts distilled down to 30 for review, of which only two [
3,
4] were deemed of up to moderate quality and thus summarized in more detail (Table 4.1, pages 22 and 23 of the report). The report concludes firstly that there is limited scientific evidence that the triad of findings and thus its individual components (subdural hemorrhage, retinal hemorrhage and cerebral edema) indicate the shaken baby syndrome and secondly that there is insufficient scientific evidence to assess the diagnostic accuracy of the triad to identify shaken baby syndrome. …
