The phrase "abusive injuries" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing harm or injuries resulting from abusive behavior, often in legal, medical, or psychological discussions.
Example: "The report highlighted the prevalence of abusive injuries among victims of domestic violence."
Alternatives: "injuries from abuse" or "harmful injuries due to abuse."
Each physician independently rated each case using a 7-point ordinal scale designed to distinguish accidental from abusive injuries.
Furthermore, we were fairly liberal in our definition of potentially abusive injuries.
In particular, ICD-9 coding performed after discharge is likely to underestimate the actual prevalence of abusive injuries in part because physicians may be reticent to assign intentional causality without confirmation from a multi-disciplinary team of social workers and law enforcement agents whose consensus is not often available until after discharge.
Multiple rib fractures in any location, in the absence of overt trauma, were strongly associated with abusive injury.
This study adds to previous studies of child abuse as a cause of major injury, and in the context of major trauma describes a different demography, pattern of injury and presentation of abusive injury compared with accidental injury.
With regards to NAT related to TBI, 30% of children hospitalized with abusive head injuries had a sentinel injury [ 12].
All but one study covered an infant/toddler age group.w32 Skull fractures are more commonly reported after non-abusive trauma than after abusive head injury; the point estimate of the probability of abuse given a skull fracture was 0.30 (0.19 to 0.46) (fig 5).
We sought to address this by characterising the demographic and injury characteristics of children who sustained abusive major trauma compared with unintentional injury.
To determine whether D-dimer would be increased in children with traumatic brain injury (TBI), specifically mild abusive head trauma.
She said there was "no explanation" for some of the facial bruises and they were "highly suggestive of abusive or inflicted injuries".
She told jurors there was "no explanation" for some of the facial bruises and they were "highly suggestive of abusive or inflicted injuries".
