Pouring out the dirty bathwater without throwing away either the baby or its parents: commentary to Saunders et al

Affiliations

¹ Stockholm Centre for Healthcare Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77, Stockholm, Sweden. niels.lynoe@ki.se.
² Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
³ Department of Clinical Science and Education, Södersjukhuset, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
⁴ Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
⁵ Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
⁶ Department of Community Medicine and Rehabilitation, Forensic Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.

Comment

Niels Lynøe et al. Pediatr Radiol. 2018 Feb.

. 2018 Feb;48(2):284-286.

doi: 10.1007/s00247-017-4003-x. Epub 2017 Oct 23.

¹ Stockholm Centre for Healthcare Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77, Stockholm, Sweden. niels.lynoe@ki.se.
² Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
³ Department of Clinical Science and Education, Södersjukhuset, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
⁴ Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
⁵ Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
⁶ Department of Community Medicine and Rehabilitation, Forensic Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.

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Insufficient evidence for 'shaken baby syndrome' - a systematic review.
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Throwing the baby out with the bath water - response to the Swedish Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Assessment of Social Services (SBU) report on traumatic shaking.
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