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ArticleJournal of elder abuse & neglect

A new role for imaging in the diagnosis of physical elder abuse: results of a qualitative study with radiologists and frontline providers.

Mihan Lee, Tony Rosen, Kieran Murphy, Pallavi Sagar

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Article in Journal of elder abuse & neglect. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. The current state of forensic imaging- clinical forensic imaging.International journal of legal medicine · 2025
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  2. Can diagnostic imaging help improve elder abuse detection?The British journal of radiology · 2020
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Mihan Leea Department of Radiology , Weill Cornell Medicine , New York , NY , USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0993-6000
Tony Rosenb Division of Emergency Medicine , Weill Cornell Medical College , NY , USA.
Kieran Murphyc Department of Medical Imaging , Toronto Western Hospital , Toronto , ON , CAN.
Pallavi Sagard Department of Radiology , Massachusetts General Hospital , Boston , MA , USA.

Funding

Identifying Injury Patterns and Forensic Biomarkers Diagnostic of Physical Elder AbuseK76AG054866 · NIA · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI ROSEN, ANTHONY · 2016 to 2021
$1.1M
Improving Recognition of Elder Abuse through Analysis of Highly Adjudicated CasesR03AG048109 · NIA · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI ROSEN, ANTHONY · 2014 to 2015
$250k
NIA NIH HHS K76 AG054866NIA NIH HHS R03 AG048109
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pediatric radiologists play a key role in the detection of child abuse through the identification of characteristic injury patterns. Emergency radiologists have the potential to play an equally important role in the detection of elder physical abuse; however, they currently play little to no part in this effort. We examine the reasons behind this limited role, and potential strategies to expand it, by interviewing attending faculty from Emergency Radiology, Geriatrics, Emergency Medicine, Pediatric Radiology, and Pediatrics. Our interviews revealed that radiologists' contribution to elder abuse detection is currently limited by gaps in training, gaps in knowledge about imaging correlates, and gaps in inter-team clinical communication. Specifically, radiographic interpretation of elder trauma is severely restricted by lack of communication between frontline providers and radiologists about patients' injury mechanism and functional status. Improving this communication and re-conceptualizing ED workflow is critical to expanding and optimizing radiologists' role in elder abuse detection.

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Clinical CompetencePhysical AbuseRadiologistsAgedCommunicationEducation, Medical, ContinuingElder AbuseFemaleHumansInterviews as TopicMaleNew EnglandProfessional-Family RelationsWorkflowdomestic violenceElder abuseelder traumaemergency radiologyphysical abuse

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PMID30741114
PMCPMC6579604

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