TOPLINE Hospital administrative coding of child physical abuse (CPA) remained rare, with explicit abuse diagnoses remaining stable or decreasing. Broader assessment, psychosocial, and procedural safeguarding codes increased, and most coded cases involved head injuries. METHODOLOGY Researchers conducted a retrospective analysis of administrative hospital data from Germany and examined child physical abuse (CPA)-related coding patterns from …
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Child Abuse Coding Sparse in German Hospitals
