By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health & Medicine Week -- Current study results on Sports Medicine - Sports Injury have been published. According to news reporting out of Ballarat, Australia, by NewsRx editors, research stated, “Injury prevention requires information about how, why, where and when injuries occur. The Australian Sports Injury Data Dictionary (ASIDD) was developed to guide sports injury data collection and reporting.”
Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Federation University Australia, “Sports Medicine Australia (SMA) disseminated associated data collection forms and an online tool to practitioners and the sports community. This paper assesses the long-term value, usefulness and relevance of the ASIDD and SMA tools. A systematic search strategy identified both peer-reviewed and grey literature that used the ASIDD and/or the SMA tools, during 1997-2016. A text-based search was conducted within 10 electronic databases, as well as a Google Image search for the SMA tools. Documents were categorised according to ASIDD use as: (1) collected injury data; (2) informed data coding; (3) developed an injury data collection tool and/or (4) reference only. Of the 36 peer-reviewed articles, 83% directly referred to ASIDD and 17% mentioned SMA tools. ASIDD was mainly used for data coding (42%), reference (36%), data collection (17%) or resource development (14%). In contrast, 86% of 66 grey literature sources referenced, used or modified the SMA data collection forms. The ASIDD boasts a long history of use and relevance. Its ongoing use by practitioners has been facilitated by the ready availability of specific data collection forms by SMA for them to apply to directly their settings.”
According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Injury prevention practitioners can be strongly engaged in injury surveillance activities when formal guidance is supported by user-friendly tools directly relevant to their settings and practice.”
For more information on this research see: Guidance for sports injury surveillance: the 20-year influence of the Australian Sports Injury Data Dictionary. Injury Prevention , 2017;():. (BMJ Publishing Group - http://group.bmj.com/; Injury Prevention - http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/)
Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting C.F. Finch, Australian Centre for Research into Injury in Sport and its Prevention (ACRISP), Federation University Australia, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.
The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2017-042580. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.
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CITATION: (2018-01-12), Researchers at Federation University Australia Describe Findings in Sports Injury (Guidance for sports injury surveillance: the 20-year influence of the Australian Sports Injury Data Dictionary), Health & Medicine Week, 2265, ISSN: 1532-4605, BUTTER® ID: 014975586
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