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  1. Ivan Barry Pless
  1. Correspondence to Dr Ivan Barry Pless, Retired, 434 Lansdowne, Westmount, Quebec, Canada H3Y2V2; barry.pless{at}mcgill.ca

https://doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2016-042153

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    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.