Are prevalence measures better than incidence measures in sports injury research?
Br J Sports Med
.
2019 Apr;53(7):396-397.
doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2017-098205.
Epub 2017 Oct 13.
Authors
Rasmus Oestergaard Nielsen
1
,
Katrin Debes-Kristensen
1
,
Adam Hulme
2
3
,
Michael Lejbach Bertelsen
1
,
Merete Møller
1
,
Erik Thorlund Parner
4
,
Mohammad Ali Mansournia
5
6
Affiliations
1
Section for Sports Science, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
2
Australian Collaboration for Research into Injury in Sports and its Prevention (ACRISP), Federation University Australia, Victoria.
3
Centre for Human Factors and Sociotechnical Systems, University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia.
4
Section for Biostatistics, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Denmark.
5
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
6
Sports Medicine Research Center, Neuroscience Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
PMID:
29030388
DOI:
10.1136/bjsports-2017-098205
No abstract available
Keywords:
knowledge translation; measurement; sporting injuries; statistics.
Publication types
Editorial
MeSH terms
Athletic Injuries / epidemiology*
Humans
Incidence*
Prevalence*
Research / standards*