Judgements of physicians, nurses, and social workers regarding suspected Child maltreatment in community health care services.

This study investigated how physicians, nurses, and social workers in community health care services make judgements about possible child maltreatment in ambiguous situations. We examined the influences of social biases (i.e.

Assessing, Consulting, Reporting Heuristics in Professional Decision-Making Regarding Suspected Child Maltreatment in Community Healthcare Services.

This study investigated child protection decision-making practices of healthcare-professionals in community-health-services. We examined the effect of heuristics in professional judgments regarding suspected maltreatment, as affected by the child's ethnicity, gender, and family socioeconomic-status, as well as the healthcare-worker's workload-stress, and personal and professional background. Furthermore, we examined how these variables influence judgments regarding suspected maltreatment and intentions to consult and report child-maltreatment.

Domestic violence: a national simulation-based educational program to improve physicians' knowledge, skills and detection rates.

Background: Although physicians are in a unique position to identify and report domestic violence (DV), detection rates are poor.

Aim: To develop a national DV experiential training program, based on standardized patients (SPs), to improve knowledge, skills and detection rates among physicians.

Methods: The program was initiated by the Israeli Ministry of Health and took place at the Israel Center of Medical Simulation (MSR).