Injury Surveillance

Injury surveillance.

Public health surveillance is the ongoing, systematic collection, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of data on health-related events for use in public health action to reduce morbidity and mortality and to improve health (1). More simply put, surveillance is about translating information into action. In the United States, much of the focus of public health surveillance has traditional...

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...

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 ...

Postmarketing surveillance of injury countermeasures.

Injury surveillance in a rugby tournament.

OBJECTIVE To investigate injuries in international rugby football. METHODS All injuries that led to temporary stoppage of the game or to the substitution of a player during the Rugby World Cup prequalifying tournament were recorded. Six matches were played, involving the Arabian Gulf, Kenya, Namibia, and Zimbabwe. RESULTS 47 injuries were recorded, giving an injury rate of eight per match. ...