Epidemiology of Surgical Treatment of Adolescent Sports Injuries in the United States: Analysis of the MarketScan Commercial Claims and Encounters Database.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To determine whether there is increasing surgical management of adolescent sports injuries and whether the average age of surgical patients is decreasing.

Methods

The Truven Health MarketScan Database was searched from 2008 to 2014 for patients 10 to 19 years of age using the International Classification of Disease, 9th Revision codes and Current Procedure Terminology, 4th Edition, codes for operative treatment for the following conditions: anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries, knee collateral ligament (KCL) injuries, meniscal injuries, Osgood-Schlatter syndrome, and elbow ulnar collateral ligament injuries. Patients identified were characterized by sex, age, year of injury, and type of residence (urban vs rural) based on metropolitan statistical areas.

SUBMITTER: Bonazza N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7120859 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature