The Child Abuse Recognition Experience Study (CARES)

Review Policy:

It is PROS policy that all PROS practitioners who complete data collection for a study receive a copy of the manuscript(s) for review shortly before submission for publication. Written feedback to the authors is optional. All the Child Abuse Recognition Experience Study participants will be credited by practice in core papers submitted for publication. Participation at this level does not require any data analytic efforts, manuscript preparation or editing. Practitioners who complete all data collection and who participate in intermediate editing of manuscripts during their preparatory phase will also receive formal manuscript acknowledgment, listing and recognition at PROS meetings.

Authorship Opportunities:

Practitioners who wish to participate as paper authors on peer-reviewed manuscripts arising from the project will agree to the The Child Abuse Recognition Experience Study Publication Policy which recognizes the network ownership of all data and employs the JAMA Criteria for Authorship. In short, practitioners wishing to participate in manuscript analyses and writing will be required to participate in monthly conference calls for periods of four to six months, review relevant literature and contribute to the writing of the papers derived from the data.

Individuals may wish to play a leadership role on one of the Topic Teams or alternatively to provide practitioner feedback to one of the Teams at this level. Subsequent results may be presented by practitioners at national or regional meetings or published in peer-reviewed journals.

For more information on the PROS Review Policy or authorship opportunities, please contact the PROS central office at pros@aap.org or call 800/433-9016, extension 7623.

Abstracts:

Flaherty, E., Sege, R., Griffith, J., Dhepyasuwan, N. From The Child Abuse Recognition Experience Study ( CARES): Patient And Family Factors In Primary Care Practitioners (PCPS) Decision To Report Child Abuse (CA). Presented as a platform presentation at the 2006 Pediatric Academic Societies' Annual Meeting.

Finch SA, Barkin SL, Wasserman RC, Dhepyasuwan N, Slora EJ, Sege RD.  Local-IRB review of national practice-based research network (PBRN) studies: helpful or redundant?  Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.  2009;163 1130-1134.

Flaherty EG, Sege RD, Dhepyasuwan N, Price LL and Wasserman, RA. Report from the PROS Network. Child Abuse (CA) Suspicion and
Reporting Among Primary Care Practitioners (PCPs). Accepted as a platform presentation at the 2005 Pediatric Academic Societies' Annual Meeting.

Flaherty E, Price L, Wasserman R, Trowbridge M, O'Connor K and Sege RD. See no evil: Education and experience in child abuse (CARES). Presented at the 2004 Pediatric Academic Societies' Annual Meeting.

Finch S, Barkin S, Ip E, Slora, E, Wasserman R, Dhepyasuwan N, Sege R. Local-IRB Review of National Practice-Based Research Network (PBRN) Studies: Helpful or Redundant? Presented as a poster presentation at the 2007 AHRQ Practice-Based Research Network Conference.

Rizzardini L, Angelilli M, Price LL, Sege RD, O'Connor K and Flaherty E. A comparison of pediatric resident and practitioner identification and management of suspected child abuse (CARES). Presented as a poster at the 2004 Pediatric Academic Societies' Annual Meeting.

Sege R, Flaherty E, Price LL, Slora E and CARES Study Group.  From the Child Abuse Recognition Experience Study (CARES): Expert Review of Primary Care Providers' Reporting of Child Physical Abuse. Presented as a poster presentation at the 2007 Pediatric Academic Societies' Annual Meeting

Trowbridge M, Flaherty E, Price LL, O'Connor K and Sege RD. More than a feeling? Physician self-confidence and response to a standard child abuse vignette (CARES). Presented as a poster at the 2004 Pediatric Academic Societies' Annual Meeting.

Manuscripts:

Flaherty EG, Sege R, Price LL, Christoffel KK, Norton DP, O’Connor KG. Pediatrician characteristics associated with child abuse identification and reporting: results from a national survey of pediatricians.Child Maltreatment. 2006;11:361-369.

Flaherty, EG, Jones R, Sege R, The Child Abuse Recognition Experience Study Research Group. Telling their stories: primary care practitioners' experience evaluating and reporting injuries caused by child abuse. Child Abuse & Neglect 2004; 28: 939-945.

Flaherty EG, Sege RD, Griffith J, Price LL, Wasserman R, Slora E, Dhepyasuwan N, Harris D, Norton D, Angelilli M, Abney D, Binns HJ.  From suspicion of physical child abuse to reporting: Primary care clinician decision-making. The Child Abuse Reporting Experience Study Research Group. Pediatrics.  2008; 122 (3):611-619.

Jones, R, Flaherty E, Slora E, Price LL, Binns H, Abney D, Harris D, Christoffel KK, Sege R. Clinicians’ Description of Factors Influencing their Reporting of Suspected Child Abuse: A Report of the Child Abuse Reporting Experience Study Research Group. Pediatrics. 2008; 122(2): 259-266.