Figure 1.

 Child maltreatment suspected by paediatric emergency staff (%). Approximate locations of participating hospitals and ratios of children scoring 4 or above in "compatibility with the concept of child abuse or neglect, understood as physical, sexual, or mental harm (i.e. non-subjective evidence of injury suffered because of others, known or unknown)". Scale: 1, ruled out; 2, almost excluded; 3, very dubious; 4, dubious; 5, almost certain; 6, certain. Clinicians did not know what threshold was to be set.