TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Legal Issues A1 - Spector, Lisa Santos A2 - Zaoutis, Lisa B. A2 - Chiang, Vincent W. Y1 - 2017 N1 - T2 - Comprehensive Pediatric Hospital Medicine, 2e AB - Physicians do not learn much about child protective services and the legal system during their training, yet in pediatric practice there is an increasing need for understanding of these two areas, especially in the area of child maltreatment. Medical professionals often have questions regarding the process of mandated reporting of child abuse to state agencies, as well as the civil and criminal court actions that may result from those reports, which may require physicians to provide factual and expert testimony. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/04/19 UR - accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1146114516 ER -