Letter To The Editor
1 Department of Population Health Sciences, National Institute of Public Health, 0462 Oslo, Norway
2 Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195
We appreciate commendations and valuable comments brought by Battaglia and Kiser regarding our analysis of injuries occurring in day care center versus home environment. They suggest a possible alternative interpretation of the data we report in the paper. In particular, they note the possibility that differences in exposure-adjusted injury rates among children in home versus day-care settings may result from differences in the propensity of parents and day care staff to seek medical treatment for children with minor injuries.




