Association between wearing a personal floatation device and death by drowning among recreational boaters: a matched cohort analysis of United States Coast Guard data

• Published in: Injury prevention Vol. 17; no. 3; pp. 156 - 159
• Main Authors: Cummings, P, Mueller, B A, Quan, L
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BMJ Publishing Group Ltd 01.06.2011; BMJ Publishing Group LTD
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Age Distribution; Aged; Analysis; Boating accidents & safety; Coastal zone; Cohort analysis; Cohort studies; conditional Poisson regression; Death; Drowning; Drowning - mortality; Drowning - prevention & control; Drownings; epidemiologic methods; epidemiologic research design; Estimates; Fatalities; Female; Guards; Heart attacks; Humans; Injuries; Male; matched analysis; methods; Middle Aged; missing data; Mortality; Narratives; personal floatation device; prevention; Preventive health; Protective Devices - utilization; Recreation; Recreation areas; Research Design; Risk Factors; selection bias; Ships - statistics & numerical data; Studies; Swimming; United States - epidemiology; Variables; Young Adult; United States; USA

ObjectiveTo estimate the association between wearing a personal floatation device (PFD) and death by drowning among recreational boaters.DesignMatched cohort study analysis of Coast Guard data.SettingUnited States.SubjectsRecreational boaters during 2000–2006.Main outcome measuresRisk ratio (RR) for...