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Katherine Kaufer Christoffel
Researcher at Children's Memorial Hospital
Publications - 38
Citations - 1466
Katherine Kaufer Christoffel is an academic researcher from Children's Memorial Hospital. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poison control & Injury prevention. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 38 publications receiving 1425 citations. Previous affiliations of Katherine Kaufer Christoffel include National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
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Behavioral and Emotional Problems Among Preschool Children in Pediatric Primary Care: Prevalence and Pediatricians' Recognition
John V. Lavigne,Helen J. Binns,Katherine Kaufer Christoffel,Diane Rosenbaum,Richard Arend,Karen Smith,Jennifer R. Hayford,Patricia A. MCGuire +7 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that a substantial number of preschool children with behavior problems in primary care are not being identified or treated.
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Violent death and injury in US children and adolescents.
TL;DR: The only prevention approach that has been both well evaluated and of apparent benefit is the home health visitor for prevention of child abuse in infants of young, impoverished, unmarried primiparous women, and many other approaches are plausible, promising, and/or being implemented, and these require thorough trial and evaluation.
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Health care providers' experience reporting child abuse in the primary care setting
Emalee G. Flaherty,Robert Sege,Helen J. Binns,Christine L. Mattson,Katherine Kaufer Christoffel +4 more
TL;DR: Primary care providers report most, but not all, cases of suspected child abuse that they identify, but past negative experience with CPS and perceived lack of benefit to the child were common reasons given by providers for not reporting.
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Mental Health Service Use Among Young Children Receiving Pediatric Primary Care
John V. Lavigne,Richard Arend,Diane Rosenbaum,Helen J. Binns,Katherine Kaufer Christoffel,B. S Andrew Burns,B. S Andrew Smith +6 more
TL;DR: Young children with more impairment and family conflict are more likely to enter into treatment, and services among young children of different races with diagnoses are not equally distributed.
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Standard definitions for childhood injury research: excerpts of a conference report.
Katherine Kaufer Christoffel,Peter C. Scheidt,Phyllis F. Agran,Jess F. Kraus,Elizabeth McLoughlin,Jerome A. Paulson +5 more
TL;DR: It is expected that childhood injury investigators will strive to meet the recommendations of this conference and that use of these definitions will lead to improvements in research and, ultimately, to revision of the definitions.