Application of the Hill Criteria to the Causal Association between Post-Traumatic Headache and Assault

Authors

Michael D. Freeman, Oregon Health & Science University
Sean S. Kohles, Portland State University

Published In

Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2011

Subjects

Post-traumatic headache -- Etiology, Post-taumatic headache -- Symptoms, Forensic medicine -- Case studies, Rape -- Effect of post-traumatic headache on

Abstract

Post-traumatic headache (PTH) is a common and disabling symptom secondary to the traumatic event. It is known that assault is associated with a wide range of physical symptoms including PTH. In this work, the general causation approach provided by the Hill criteria is described as an assessment tool for specific causation with regards to PTH and sexual assault. Time-dependent models of probability and, in-turn, relative risk are described as quantitative algorithms for addressing inductive and abductive conclusions of causation in forensic science.

Description

This article was published Open Access. Copyright 2011 Forensic Medicine Authority. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

DOI

10.1016/j.ejfs.2011.04.008

Persistent Identifier

http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/10040

Citation Details

Freeman, Michael D., and Sean S. Kohles. "Application of the Hill criteria to the causal association between post-traumatic headache and assault." Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences 1.1 (2011): 35-40.