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Booster Seats for Children: Closing the Gap Between Science and Public Policy in the United States

Dennis R. Durbin Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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Jeffrey Runge U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, DC, USA
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Murray Mackay Accident Research Centre, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England
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Uwe Meissner Volkswagen of America, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA
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Jocelyn Pedder RONA Kinetics & Associates, Ltd., North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Elaine Wodzin Past Executive Director, Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine, Des Plaines, Illinois, USA
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Narayan Yoganandan Department of Neurosurgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
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