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.
Schwellnus M, Kipps C, Roberts WO, Drezner JA, D’Hemecourt P, Troyanos C, Janse van Rensburg DC, Killops J, Borresen J, Harrast M, Adami PE, Bermon S, Bigard X, Migliorini S, Jordaan E, Borjesson M. Br J Sports Med. 2019 Feb 22. pii: bjsports-2018-100092. doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2018-100092. [Epub ahead of print]
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A consensus “Medical Methods in Endurance Sport” group, which included researchers and clinicians involved in international community-based endurance sporting events met. Their goal was to agree on a set of definitions of medical incidents and complications and to standardize the methods to record and report these events at large community-based endurance sports events. Representatives of 3 major sporting federations helped prepare the manuscript for endorsement of the final consensus document. The document includes definitions for “mass community-based endurance sports event”, “medical team”, as well as “medical problems” and “medical encounters” (including severity, timing, and diagnostic categories).