RT Book, Section
A1 Schreier, Herbert
A2 Rudolph, Colin D.
A2 Rudolph, Abraham M.
A2 Lister, George E.
A2 First, Lewis R.
A2 Gershon, Anne A.
SR Print(0)
ID 6739055
T1 Chapter 94. Pediatric Condition Falsification
T2 Rudolph's Pediatrics, 22e
YR 2011
FD 2011
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-149723-7
LK accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=6739055
RD 2024/04/25
AB Factitious  disorder  by  proxy,  previously  known  as  Munchausen  by  proxy,  occurs  when  a  caretaker  (usually  a  mother)  directly  causes  her  child  to  be,  or  appear  to  be,  ill  or  impaired  and  obtains  medical  interventions.  The  name  for  this  disorder  is  derived  from  the  adult  condition  factitious  disorder,  which  is  a  self-inflicted  or  fabricated  illness  to  gain  medical  attention.  In  factitious  disorder  by  proxy,  a  child  may  be  hospitalized  unnecessarily  or  may  receive  inappropriate  procedures  and  treatments  that  may  have  devastating  effects  on  the  child.