Research that identified sports and recreation related comcussions (SRRCs) in the US using 3 national databases: MarketScan, National Electronic Injury Surveillance System, and National High School Sports Related Injury Surveillance System, Reporting Injury Online.
It determined the number of SRRCs seen in health care settings (outpatient, inpatient, and emergency department) and SRRCs reported to certified high school athletic trainers (ATCs), and used the data and findings in recently published literature to generate a national estimate of SRRCs.
The report estimates that between 1.1 and 1.9 million SRRCs occur annually in US children aged ≤18 years.
Most children with SRRCs were not seen in health care settings. Of the children with SRRCs seen in health care settings, most were seen as outpatients with 377,978 visits, compared with between 115,479 and 166,929 ED visits, and between 2886 and 4936 hospitalizations.
Whilst SRRCs are a common injury in children, there is a need for better surveillance to enhance the understanding of the epidemiology of concussions in youth.
Read the full report here.
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