- Title
- Medical-attention injuries in community Australian football: A review of 30 years of surveillance data from treatment-sources
- Creator
- Ekegren, Christina; Finch, Caroline; Gabbe, Belinda
- Date
- 2013
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/62574
- Identifier
- vital:5466
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsams.2013.10.134
- Identifier
- ISSN:1440-2440
- Abstract
- Introduction: Australian football (AF) consistently outranks other team sports in the frequency of hospitalisations and emergency department (ED) presentations for sports injury treatment. Understanding the profile of these and other ‘medical-attention’ injuries is important for developing preventative strategies and thereby reducing the health-care burden resulting from AF injuries. Currently, hospital and ED surveillance systems provide the only ongoing source of epidemiological data on community sports injuries at the population level. The purpose of this review was to describe the frequency and profile of medical-attention injuries resulting from AF reported in hospital, ED and other treatment-source datasets.
- Relation
- Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport Vol. 16, no. Supplement 1 (December 2013 2013), p. e56
- Rights
- © 2013 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1106 Human Movement and Sports Science; 1117 Public Health and Health Services
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