Results on sports-related injuries in children from NHS emergency care dataset Oxfordshire pilot: an ecological study.

ABSTRACT:

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 s

SUBMITTER: Kirkwood G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6423521 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature