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The evidence base for shaken baby syndrome

EDITOR—It is difficult to understand how Reece et al could interpret our editorial as displaying “a worrisome and persistent bias against the diagnosis of child abuse in general.” Child abuse exists, and we know and attest that it exists. The editorial does not discuss “child abuse in general.”

Child abuse exists in many forms: our editorial addresses the diagnostic criteria for a specific type of abuse, the so-called shaken baby syndrome. We emphasise, as have Donohoe and Lantz et al,1 2 that the literature to support …