Guidance for sports injury surveillance: the 20-year influence of the Australian Sports Injury Data Dictionary

The Western Australian sports injury study.

Comparing Two Sports Injury Surveillance Systems: A Novel Systematic Approach

Purpose: The present study aimed to compare two sports injury surveillance systems per the sports injury recording system of the sports medicine federation. Methods: A sports injury surveillance system was implemented to collect injury data. Athletic trainers recorded athletes’ sports injuries in soccer, volleyball, handball, taekwondo, and wrestling for 6 months in their user account via a sm...

Insurance claims data: a possible solution for a national sports injury surveillance system? An evaluation of data information against ASIDD and consensus statements on sports injury surveillance

BACKGROUND Before preventive actions can be suggested for sports injuries at the national level, a solid surveillance system is required in order to study their epidemiology, risk factors and mechanisms. There are guidelines for sports injury data collection and classifications in the literature for that purpose. In Sweden, 90% of all athletes (57/70 sports federations) are insured with the sam...

The Nottingham Sports Injury Clinic.

The Nottingham Sports Injury Clinic stemmed from the enthusiasm and determination of the clinicians involved (one an orthopaedic physician and the other an orthopaedic surgeon) to offer a service to the sports injured of the Nottingham area. Nottingham has a high incidence of sports clubs and centres per unit of population and hence has a large number of athletes in need of attention. Though th...

Australian Injury Surveillance Data Standards

Routine scrutiny of the occurrence of injury is an essential component of effective public health injury control. Much can be achieved using data which are collected mainly for reasons other than public health injury surveillance. Coroners' records, hospital admission data, and workers' compensation records are examples of such data sources. The special virtue of these sources is that they are ...