TY - JOUR T1 - Reflecting on the past to improve the future: introducing ‘action after reviews’ into sport JF - British Journal of Sports Medicine JO - Br J Sports Med SP - 387 LP - 388 DO - 10.1136/bjsports-2023-106938 VL - 57 IS - 7 AU - Stephen Mutch AU - Alan McCall AU - Adrian Wolfberg Y1 - 2023/04/01 UR - http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/57/7/387.abstract N2 - In the high-pressured professional sport arena, the health and performance support team (ie, medical, physiotherapy, sport science, strength and conditioning, clinical psychology and nutrition) needs to make high quality yet often quick decisions. These often involve recommendations regarding factors impacting injury and illness management, availability and performance of athletes.Such recommendations are critical to players, coaches and team leadership as they can influence team performance. Making a high-quality decision under time pressures and with uncertainties and ambiguities is challenging, especially when trying to consider all relevant information while stepping back from potential emotions surrounding the decision. Decision making is influenced by several contextual components including (but not limited to) human factors, organisational challenges and cognitive understanding. In the presence of uncertainties and ambiguities, swift decisions can be clouded by misunderstandings or misinterpretations between the people making them. In contrast, high-quality decisions are informed by structured frameworks, transparency in reasoning, acknowledgement of assumptions and a bias towards action.Health and performance support team practitioners … ER -