Clinical Pediatrics · 1978 · 21 citations · 6 references
PharmacyChild HealthPediatricsChild Abuse PediatricsPoisoning DiagnosisPoisoning ManagementChild AbuseChild MaltreatmentDrugs Of AbusePediatric Poisoning DiagnosisPoisoning InvestigationAvoidable HospitalizationsChild Abuse DiagnosisDrug Overdose In ChildrenMedical Child AbusePediatric Drug ExposurePediatric Poisoning TreatmentPotentially Avoidable HospitalizationsPotentially Preventable Hospitalizations
The two cases described in this report are examples of a bizarre form of a child abuse. Intentional poisoning with prescription drugs was used by the mother to simulate an underlying disease in her two children. Combined with misleading history and interference with laboratory procedures, she confounded physicians for years, and led to unnecessary hospitalizations, treatment and multiple laboratory procedures for these children. This report may alert physicians to earlier recognition of this form of child abuse.
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MUNCHAUSEN SYNDROME BY PROXY THE HINTERLAND OF CHILD ABUSE
Roy Meadow · The Lancet · 1977 · 819 citations
Medicine, Pediatrics, Psychiatry +10
Anticoagulant malingerers (the “dicumarol-eaters”)
E. J. Walter Bowie, Margaret Todd, John H. Thompson et al. · The American Journal of Medicine · 1965 · 34 citations