Book contents
- Shaken Baby Syndrome
- Shaken Baby Syndrome
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- About This Book
- Abbreviations
- Section 1 Prologue
- Section 2 Medicine
- Section 3 Science
- Chapter 10 The Swedish Systematic Literature Review on Suspected Traumatic Shaking (Shaken Baby Syndrome) and Its Aftermath
- Chapter 11 Interrogation and the Infanticide Suspect
- Chapter 12 Can Confession Substitute for Science in Shaken Baby Syndrome/Abusive Head Trauma?
- Chapter 13 Cognitive Bias in Medico-legal Judgments
- Chapter 14 Biomechanical Forensic Analysis of Shaking and Short-Fall Head Injury Mechanisms in Infants and Young Children
- Chapter 15 When Lack of Information Leads to Apparent Paradoxes and Wrong Conclusions
- Chapter 16 Epidemiology of Findings Claimed to Be Highly Specific for Shaken Baby Syndrome/Abusive Head Trauma, a Prerequisite to Improve Diagnosis of Child Abuse
- Chapter 17 Shaken Baby Syndrome
- Section 4 Law
- Section 5 International
- Section 6 Postface
- Appendix: Frequently Repeated Claims concerning Shaken Baby Syndrome
- Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
- References
Chapter 17 - Shaken Baby Syndrome
Exploring Concerns about the ‘Triad’ Diagnosis and Its Statistical Validation Using a Causal Bayesian Network
from Section 3 - Science
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 June 2023
- Shaken Baby Syndrome
- Shaken Baby Syndrome
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- About This Book
- Abbreviations
- Section 1 Prologue
- Section 2 Medicine
- Section 3 Science
- Chapter 10 The Swedish Systematic Literature Review on Suspected Traumatic Shaking (Shaken Baby Syndrome) and Its Aftermath
- Chapter 11 Interrogation and the Infanticide Suspect
- Chapter 12 Can Confession Substitute for Science in Shaken Baby Syndrome/Abusive Head Trauma?
- Chapter 13 Cognitive Bias in Medico-legal Judgments
- Chapter 14 Biomechanical Forensic Analysis of Shaking and Short-Fall Head Injury Mechanisms in Infants and Young Children
- Chapter 15 When Lack of Information Leads to Apparent Paradoxes and Wrong Conclusions
- Chapter 16 Epidemiology of Findings Claimed to Be Highly Specific for Shaken Baby Syndrome/Abusive Head Trauma, a Prerequisite to Improve Diagnosis of Child Abuse
- Chapter 17 Shaken Baby Syndrome
- Section 4 Law
- Section 5 International
- Section 6 Postface
- Appendix: Frequently Repeated Claims concerning Shaken Baby Syndrome
- Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
- References
Summary
When very young children are brought to a doctor or hospital with signs and symptoms consistent with head injury, it is important to determine the cause. For almost 50 years, the triad of subdural haematoma (SDH), retinal haemorrhage (RH) and encephalopathy has been regarded as an accurate predictor of deliberate shaking and widely used to diagnose shaken baby syndrome (SBS). Statistical analyses by Cardiff University researchers and others claim to show that certain combinations of findings are highly predictive of abuse and as a result of this conclusion, protocols such as mandatory reporting to police are invoked in the name of protecting the child. However, concerns have been raised about the circularity of approach used in the statistical analyses which requires each case to be classified explicitly as either abuse or non-abuse. By producing a causal model of the problem, we show that these findings are actually a poor predictor of SBS, even where there is some evidence of risk factors indicative of abuse.
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- Shaken Baby SyndromeInvestigating the Abusive Head Trauma Controversy, pp. 259 - 274Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023