Child Maltreatment and Medical Fragility: Fatalities in the First Year of Life.

Pediatrics

Department of Pediatrics and the Kempe Center, The University of Colorado, Aurora, Colorado and the Departments of Social Medicine and Pediatrics, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Published: September 2021

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