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Office-Based Counseling for Injury Prevention

COMMITTEE ON INJURY AND POISON PREVENTION

Injury remains the leading cause of childhood and adolescent death and disability. Appropriate counseling by pediatricians can alert parents and children to many risky behaviors or environments. Appropriate behavior or environmental change by parents and children will be needed to decrease the number of children with significant injury.


The following policy statement is a revision:

Office-Based Counseling for Unintentional Injury Prevention
H. Garry Gardner and the Committee on Injury, Violence, and Poison Prevention
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