RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 International consensus statement on injury surveillance in cricket: a 2016 update
JF British Journal of Sports Medicine
JO Br J Sports Med
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine
SP 1245
OP 1251
DO 10.1136/bjsports-2016-096125
VO 50
IS 20
A1 John W Orchard
A1 Craig Ranson
A1 Benita Olivier
A1 Mandeep Dhillon
A1 Janine Gray
A1 Ben Langley
A1 Akshai Mansingh
A1 Isabel S Moore
A1 Ian Murphy
A1 Jon Patricios
A1 Thiagarajan Alwar
A1 Christopher J Clark
A1 Brett Harrop
A1 Hussain I Khan
A1 Alex Kountouris
A1 Mairi Macphail
A1 Stephen Mount
A1 Anesu Mupotaringa
A1 David Newman
A1 Kieran O'Reilly
A1 Nicholas Peirce
A1 Sohail Saleem
A1 Dayle Shackel
A1 Richard Stretch
A1 Caroline F Finch
YR 2016
UL http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/50/20/1245.abstract
AB Cricket was the first sport to publish recommended methods for injury surveillance in 2005. Since then, there have been changes to the nature of both cricket and injury surveillance. Researchers representing the major cricket playing nations met to propose changes to the previous recommendations, with an agreed voting block of 14. It was decided that 10 of 14 votes (70%) were required to add a new definition element and 11 of 14 (80%) were required to amend a previous definition. In addition to the previously agreed ‘Match time-loss’ injury, definitions of ‘General time-loss’, ‘Medical presentation’, ‘Player-reported’ and ‘Imaging-abnormality’ injuries are now provided. Further, new injury incidence units of match injuries per 1000 player days, and annual injuries per 100 players per year are recommended. There was a shift towards recommending a greater number of possible definitions, due to differing contexts and foci of cricket research (eg, professional vs amateur; injury surveillance systems vs specific injury category studies). It is recommended that researchers use and report as many of the definitions as possible to assist both comparisons between studies within cricket and with those from other sports.