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Furthermore, no indications about the risk of bias in these studies are available. For these reasons, the authors conducted a systematic review of the PubMed database to answer the following questions: \u201cwhat is the state of the art about the development and\/or validation of AI predictive models useful to contrast child abuse and neglect phenomenon?\u201d; \u201cwhich is the risk of bias of the included articles?\u201d. The inclusion criteria were: articles written in English and dated from January 1985 to 31 March 2023; publications that used a medical and\/or protective service dataset to develop and\/or validate AI prediction models. The reviewers screened 413 articles. Among them, seven papers were included. Their analysis showed that: the types of input data were heterogeneous; artificial neural networks, convolutional neural networks, and natural language processing were used; the datasets had a median size of 2600 cases; the risk of bias was high for all studies. The results of the review pointed out that the implementation of AI in the child abuse and neglect field lagged compared to other medical fields. 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