Counting organised sport injury cases: Evidence of incomplete capture from routine hospital collections

Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 304-308

  Mitchell, Rebecca ^a   Finch, Caroline ^b   Boufous, Soufiane ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BALLARAT   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Organised sport; Population survey; Sports injury; Surveillance limitations

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICIAN; PHYSIOTHERAPIST; SELF REPORT; SPORT INJURY; SPORTING EVENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATHLETIC INJURIES; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW SOUTH WALES; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950187937     PISSN: 14402440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsams.2009.04.003     Document Type: Article

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