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September 2009, Vol 99, No. 9 | American Journal of Public Health 1540-1541
© 2009 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2009.166421

LETTERS

CHILD RESTRAINT SYSTEMS FOR YOUNG CHILDREN DURING MOTOR VEHICLE COLLISIONS

Michael R. Elliott, PhD, Michael J. Kallan, MS and Dennis R. Durbin, MD, MSCE

Michael R. Elliott is with the Department of Biostatistics and the Survey Methodology Program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Michael J. Kallan is with the Center for Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Dennis R. Durbin is with the Center for Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

Correspondence: Correspondence should be sent to Michael R. Elliott, PhD, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan School of Public Health, M4041 SPHII, 1420 Washington Heights, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 (e-mail: mrelliot@umich.edu). Reprints can be ordered at http://www.ajph.org by clicking on the "Reprints/Eprints" link.

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Rice and Anderson's matched cohort study1 assesses the effect of seat belt and booster seat use on fatality risk among 0–3 year olds using Fatal Accident Reporting System data.2 We are concerned that their implementation of the method extrapolates far beyond available data, to the point of making comparisons among adults and young children that are not meaningful. The authors use conditional Poisson regression to estimate the effects of different restraint types on risk of death. This model uses a log link to model risk of death Y:

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