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Evaluation of injury surveillance data collected during major multisport games: Informing a standardized prospective injury surveillance system for the Canada Games
This thesis includes two projects focused on the injury surveillance system used by the Canada Games (CG). The first, examined the interrater reliability of coding of injury information collected using the injury surveillance system employed at the CG. The injury report form data from the 2017 and …
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Injury surveillance at an intermediate state hospital in Windhoek
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Injury surveillance in community cricket and the exploration of insurance claims systems
… funded PhD thesis were 1) To understand the injury causes, trends and burden in community cricket and 2) To examine the Cricket Australia National Club Risk Protection Program (NCRPP) insurance scheme for suitability as an injury surveillance tool for community cricket. This thesis sought to …
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Soccer injury surveillance and implementation of an injury prevention programme in Rwanda
… to date often fail to incorporate standardised injury definitions or reporting methods. Therefore, there is an urgent need to conduct epidemiological studies within the context of low to middle-income countries, where resources may be limited, and taking into consideration exposure times to …
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Developing a framework of non-fatal occupational injury surveillance for risk control in palm oil mills
Non-fatal occupational injury (NFOI) and its risk factors have become a current global concern. The need of research towards the relationship between occupational injury and its risk factor is essential, to fulfil the purpose and setting the priority of implementing safety preventive approaches at …
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An injury surveillance of patients utilising the Durban University of Technology (DUT) Chiropractic Treatment Facilities at the 2013 World Transplant Games
Submitted in partial compliance with the requirements for the Master’s Degree in Technology: Chiropractic, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2015.
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Surveillance strategies used to monitor injuries in amateur and professional cricket players: An integrative review
… sports medical staff play an important role in injury prevention. Injury surveillance is the starting point for injury prevention. To date, there are two consensus statements on injury surveillance in cricket. There are no studies that have reviewed the strategies used to monitor injury among …
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Violence against women : a prospective study of women presenting to a South African trauma centre
… under reported. Objective - To conduct an injury surveillance of severe or life threatening violent acts against women, to determine the demographics of the injured women and to identify the nature of the perpetrators. Methods - A standardized structured questionnaire administered in an …
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Exploring the Efficacy of a Lumbo-Pelvic-Hip Injury Reduction Strategy in Professional Rugby Union
… tailored program, the players’ perceptions of injury reduction programmes. Design: Insider action research using an ecological mixed methods design. Methods: In season 1 baseline injury surveillance data was collected to establish the extent of the LPH injury problem. In season 2 and 3, a …
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Turf Talk: Injury Rates, Mechanisms, and Prevention in Adolescent Field Hockey
… (IR), PC types, PC intensity, and suspected injury (SI) IRs in female adolescent high school (HS) and club field hockey (FH). Methods: Video analysis of HS and club FH games. Results: The PC IRs for HS were similar to club (IRR=1.16; 95% CI:0.90-1.48). HS had a 3.1-fold higher SI IR than club …
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The body count : using routine mortality surveillance data to drive violence prevention
… sentinel system pilot, as a multicity all-injury surveillance system, and finally its institutionalisation as a provincial injury mortality surveillance system in the Western Cape. In so doing, it demonstrates that the data arising from medico-legal post-mortem investigations described in …
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Examination and utilization of rare features in text classification of injury narratives
… computing and information technology, analyzing injury surveillance data with statistical machine learning methods has grown in popularity, complexity, and quality over recent years. During that same time, researchers have recognized the limitations of statistical text analysis with limited …
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The effect of the Violence Prevention through Urban Upgrading (VPUU) intervention on violence-related injuries presenting to health facilities in Khayelitsha and Nyanga
… locally, have focused on using emergency room surveillance systems to collect data on violent injuries and to use these data to inform comprehensive, sustainable interventions such as urban upgrading. Drawing on insights from criminology, these urban upgrading interventions have sought to use …
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Health Assessment of Artisanal Metal Work: Injury Patterns, Aerosol Exposures, and Biomonitoring
… exposure to airborne particulates and acute injury hazards, these workers operate outside traditional regulatory frameworks and surveillance systems, such as those governed by OSHA, due to their non-standard employment status, with a notable lack of workers’ compensation or insurance …
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Shoulder and Upper Extremity Injuries in Canadian Youth Ice Hockey: Investigating Injury Rates, Types, Severity, Mechanisms, and Risk Factors
… to explore the epidemiology of shoulder-related injury in youth sports. This study examined shoulder injury rates (IR), mechanisms, risk factors, and prevention strategies that have been studied. It was found that sport-related shoulder injuries are prevalent among youth athletes (accounting for …
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The Epidemiology Of Taekwondo Injuries In Youth And Adult Competitors
… and to examine the relationship between injury rates and specific injury risk factors.</p> <p>Background: Taekwondo is becoming an increasingly popular sport among youth and adult populations. With this increase in popularity, the epidemiology of injury in taekwondo is becoming an …
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Stress, attention and sports injury
… Andersen and Williams (1988) model of stress and injury. Three studies were carried out. The first study examined the relationship between life stress and athletic injury. The sample consisted of 320 (234 males, 86 females) competitive contact team sport athletes in Melbourne clubs, who completed …
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Road Traffic Injuries in the Pacific: The epidemiology of road traffic injuries in Fiji and the role of driver sleepiness
… in Viti Levu: (1) an analysis of the Fiji Injury Surveillance in Hospitals database to describe the incidence and characteristics associated with RTI; (2) a cross sectional roadside survey of 752 drivers to estimate the prevalence of driver sleepiness; and (3) a case control study (131 …
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The effectiveness and implementation of the BokSmart Safe Six Injury prevention programme
INTRODUCTION: Injury prevention programmes in rugby union are important to reduce the sport’s injury burden. The BokSmart Safe Six exercise-based injury prevention programme (“Safe Six”) was designed for this purpose. The programme incorporates six targeted exercises as a warm-up for rugby players. …
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