The evidence base for shaken baby syndrome.

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

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Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Forensic neuropathology: 2026 update.Free neuropathology · 2026
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2. A critical review of the American Academy of Pediatrics technical report on abusive head trauma.Forensic science international. Synergy · 2025
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3. Update on injury mechanisms in abusive head trauma--shaken baby syndrome.Pediatric radiology · 2014
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4. Factors associated with hemispheric hypodensity after subdural hematoma following abusive head trauma in children.Journal of neurotrauma · 2014
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5. "Shaken baby syndrome" and forensic pathology.Forensic science, medicine, and pathology · 2014
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6. Confessed abuse versus witnessed accidents in infants: comparison of clinical, radiological, and ophthalmological data in corroborated cases.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2010
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7. Shaken baby syndrome: a common variant of non-accidental head injury in infants.Deutsches Arzteblatt international · 2009
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8. Shaken baby syndrome.Archives of disease in childhood · 2006
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9. Wrongful diagnosis of child abuse--a master theory.Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 2005
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10. The evidence base for shaken baby syndrome: meaning of signature must be made explicit.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2004
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11. The evidence base for shaken baby syndrome: response to editorial from 106 doctors.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2004
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12. Patterns of presentation of the shaken baby syndrome: subdural and retinal haemorrhages are not necessarily signs of abuse.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2004
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Corrections and comments

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  Patterns of presentation of the shaken baby syndrome: subdural and retinal haemorrhages are not necessarily signs of abuse.2004
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  The evidence base for shaken baby syndrome: response to editorial from 106 doctors.2004
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  The evidence base for shaken baby syndrome: meaning of signature must be made explicit.2004
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  The evidence base for shaken baby syndrome: response to Reece et al from 41 physicians and scientists.2004
• Comment on
  Perimacular retinal folds from childhood head trauma.2004

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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