What is it about?
It describe how a national hospital-based child abuse service evolved in Qatar. Creating a centralized project team. Raising awareness by educating all physicians and staff who might encounter abused children.
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Why is it important?
In establishing our child protection system in a small country, we achieved an over 30-fold increase in suspected child maltreatment reports, greatly enhancing victim identification. However, this came at the cost of a higher number of unconfirmed cases (approximately 75% of referrals), with only about one-fourth confirmed annually from 2019 to 2024. Ongoing refinements and education aim to balance sensitivity and specificity, with implications for shifting norms in detection and reporting.
Perspectives
Developing a safe and easy-to-follow preliminary basic approach for managing suspected cases with measurement of adherence, developed and monitored by the pediatricians executing the project in the Pediatric Emergency Centre at Hamad General Hospital.
Dr Khalid Mohamed Alansari
Hamad Medical corporation
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This page is a summary of: Improving access to care by establishing a national hospital-based child protection service, Child Protection and Practice, June 2026, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.chipro.2026.100293.
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