Developing and implementing major league baseball's health and injury tracking system

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 183, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 490-496

  Pollack, Keshia M ^a   D'Angelo, John ^b   Green, Gary ^b,c   Conte, Stan ^d   Fealy, Stephen ^e   Marinak, Chris ^b   McFarland, Edward ^f   Curriero, Frank C ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Major League Baseball   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Conte Injury Analytics ^*  (United States)

^e HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY   (United States)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

baseball; injury epidemiology; sports injury; surveillance

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH AND SAFETY; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; RESEARCH WORK; SOCIAL POLICY; SPORTS FACILITY; SURVEILLANCE AND ENFORCEMENT;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ARTICLE; BASEBALL; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; SAFETY; SPORT INJURY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INJURIES; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL INJURIES; PROCEDURES; RISK MANAGEMENT; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; UNITED STATES;

BASEBALL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL INJURIES; RISK MANAGEMENT; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84960393867     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwv348     Document Type: Article

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