PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Martin Schwellnus
AU  - Courtney Kipps
AU  - William O Roberts
AU  - Jonathan A Drezner
AU  - Pierre D’Hemecourt
AU  - Chris Troyanos
AU  - Dina Christina Janse van Rensburg
AU  - Jannelene Killops
AU  - Jill Borresen
AU  - Mark Harrast
AU  - Paolo E Adami
AU  - Stéphane Bermon
AU  - Xavier Bigard
AU  - Sergio Migliorini
AU  - Esme Jordaan
AU  - Mats Borjesson
TI  - Medical encounters (including injury and illness) at mass community-based endurance sports events: an international consensus statement on definitions and methods of data recording and reporting
AID  - 10.1136/bjsports-2018-100092
DP  - 2019 Sep 01
TA  - British Journal of Sports Medicine
PG  - 1048--1055
VI  - 53
IP  - 17
4099  - http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/53/17/1048.short
4100  - http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/53/17/1048.full
SO  - Br J Sports Med2019 Sep 01; 53
AB  - Mass participation endurance sports events are popular but a large number of participants are older and may be at risk of medical complications during events. Medical encounters (defined fully in the statement) include those traditionally considered ‘musculoskeletal’ (eg, strains) and those due to ‘illness’ (eg, cardiac, respiratory, endocrine). The rate of sudden death during mass endurance events (running, cycling and triathlon) is between 0.4 and 3.3 per 100 000 entrants. The rate of other serious medical encounters (eg, exertional heat stroke, hyponatraemia) is rarely reported; in runners it can be up to 100 times higher than that of sudden death, that is, between 16 and 155 per 100 000 race entrants. This consensus statement has two goals. It (1) defines terms for injury and illness-related medical encounters, severity and timing of medical encounters, and diagnostic categories of medical encounters, and (2) describes the methods for recording data at mass participation endurance sports events and reporting results to authorities and for publication. This unifying consensus statement will allow data from various events to be compared and aggregated. This will inform athlete/patient management, and thus make endurance events safer.