Comment on van Gemert et al. Asymptomatic Infant Rib Fractures Are Primarily Non-abuse-Related and Should Not Be Used to Assess Physical Child Abuse. Children 2023, 10, 1827

Bernd Herrmann; Tanja Brüning; Sibylle Banaschak; Oliver Berthold

doi:10.3390/children11101153

Comment on van Gemert et al. Asymptomatic Infant Rib Fractures Are Primarily Non-abuse-Related and Should Not Be Used to Assess Physical Child Abuse. Children 2023, 10, 1827

Children (Basel). 2024 Sep 24;11(10):1153. doi: 10.3390/children11101153.

Authors

Bernd Herrmann¹, Tanja Brüning², Sibylle Banaschak³, Oliver Berthold⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department for Neonatology and General Pediatrics, Klinikum Kassel GmbH, 34125 Kassel, Germany.
² Department for Child Protection, Vestische Kinder- und Jugendklinik Datteln, Witten/Herdecke University, 45711 Datteln, Germany.
³ Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital, 50823 Cologne, Germany.
⁴ Child Abuse Clinic, Department for Pediatrics, DRK Kliniken Berlin, 14050 Berlin, Germany.

Abstract

We are deeply concerned about the scientific quality of the article "Asymptomatic Infant Rib Fractures Are Primarily Non-abuse-Related and Should Not Be Used to Assess Physical Child Abuse" published in the journal Children in 2023 by van Gemert et al [...].