Citation

Roberts I. Epidemiology 1994; 5(4): 473-475.

Affiliation

Department of Community Health, University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1994, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

7918821

Abstract

I conducted a validation study to examine data collected in a case-control study of child pedestrian injuries for evidence of differential recall. I compared questionnaire responses for variables related to the safety of the home environment with direct observations of the same parameters. A comparison of all child pedestrian injury cases with all controls provided no evidence of differential recall. There was, however, differential recall for a subset of the cases, specifically those injured in residential driveways. For these cases, differential recall had a substantial effect on the odds ratio.

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