USPTF Fact Sheet On Recommendation For Primary Care Interventions to Prevent Child Maltreatment

January 22, 2013
Home visits and primary care screening interventions to prevent child abuse have only limited impact on child maltreatment rates; the evidence base for these services is insufficient to recommend how primary care professionals can best intervene to prevent abuse among children who show no signs of maltreatment. The analysis of the evidence base for the ability of these services to prevent child maltreatment was conducted on behalf of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) to update the task force’s previous finding in 2004, which found the evidence base at that time was insufficient to . . .