Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention
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To estimate the association between wearing a personal floatation device (PFD) and death by drowning among recreational boaters. ⋯ If the estimated association is causal, wearing a PFD may potentially prevent one in two drowning deaths among recreational boaters. However, this estimate may be biased because many vessels had to be excluded from the analysis.