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Correspondence
Limitations of travel data for rate computations
  1. Clare E Guse1,
  2. Steven Hargarten2
  1. 1Injury Research Center, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
  2. 2Department of Emergency Medicine, Injury Research Center, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
  1. Correspondence to Clare E Guse, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA; cguse{at}mcw.edu

https://doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2014-041177

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    • Contributors CEG contributed to the conception and design, analysis and interpretation of data, drafting of the article and final approval of the version to be published.SH contributed to the conception and design, interpretation of the data, critical revision of the letter and final approval of the version to be published.

    • Competing interests None.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.

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