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Some Essential Elements in the Collection and Retrieval of Sports-Injury Information

Jess F. Kraus, MPH, PhD; Fredric D. Burg, MD

JAMA. 1970;213(3):438-447.

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A fundamental problem associated with an epidemiologic assessment of sports-injury data is the inconsistent manner in which injury information is collected and recorded. This finding has prompted the American College of Sports Medicine, the American Standards Association, and the Joint Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports to institute special inquiries into methods for developing a uniform data collection system. (The National Collegiate Athletic Association and the Joint Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports have been involved in previous efforts to collect valid data on football injuries. The National Tackle Football Injury surveillance project is an expanded extension of that effort.) The objective of these groups is the orderly rendering of data basic to an understanding of the etiology of sports injuries.

Several essential elements must be treated as prerequisite for the establishment of an injury-data collection system. The scope of these considerations is limited . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Community Health, University of California School of Medicine, Davis (Dr. Kraus) and the Division of Planning and Standards, US Public Health Service, Cincinnati (Dr. Burg). Dr. Kraus was formerly with the Division of Planning and Standard, US Public Health Service, Cincinnati.

Footnotes
Read before the 11th National Conference on the Medical Aspects of Sports, Denver, Nov 30, 1969.

Reprint requests to Department of Community Health, University of California School of Medicine, Davis 95616 (Dr. Kraus).

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