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© 2018, The Royal Society of Medicine. Objectives: To analyse and report on sports-related injuries using enhanced injury data collected by the testbed for the NHS emergency care injury data set and admissions data collected from inpatients. Design: Ecological study design. Setting: Two Oxfordshire NHS England hospitals. Participants: Emergency department attendees and inpatients aged 0–19 years with sports injuries. Main outcome measures: Data were analysed from 1 January 2012 to 30 March 2014 by age, gender sport, injury location, injury mechanism and diagnosis including concussion/post-concussion, bone fractures and ligament damage. Admissions data were analysed from 1 January 2012 to 24 January 2015. Results: Children and adolescents aged 0–19 years accounted for almost half (47.4%) of sports injury-related emergency department attendances and almost one-quarter (23.5%) of sports injury-related admissions for all ages. The highest rates of attendance occurred at 14 years for boys (68.22 per 1000 person-years) and 12 years for girls (33.72 per 1000 person-years). For male 0–19-year-olds the three main sports were (in order) football (soccer), rugby union and rugby league and for females, trampoline, netball and horse-riding. The largest gender differences were in netball where injuries were predominantly in females and in wheeled motorsports where injuries were predominantly in males. Almost one-quarter of emergency department sports-related injuries recorded were fractures, the highest percentage to the upper limbs. Conclusions: Public health departments in local authorities and schools should consider target sports injury prevention at children in the first four years of secondary school. For younger age groups, trampolines in the home warrant improved safety. Rugby and horse-riding should also be a focus for interventions.
Author(s): Kirkwood G, Hughes TC, Pollock AM
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
Year: 2019
Volume: 112
Issue: 3
Pages: 109-118
Print publication date: 01/03/2019
Online publication date: 01/11/2018
Acceptance date: 02/10/2018
ISSN (print): 0141-0768
ISSN (electronic): 1758-1095
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/0141076818808430
DOI: 10.1177/0141076818808430
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