Statement on methods in sport injury research from the 1st METHODS MATTER Meeting, Copenhagen, 2019

Br J Sports Med. 2020 Aug;54(15):941. doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2019-101323. Epub 2020 May 4.

Abstract

High quality sports injury research can facilitate sports injury prevention and treatment. There is scope to improve how our field applies best practice methods-methods matter (greatly!). The 1st METHODS MATTER Meeting, held in January 2019 in Copenhagen, Denmark, was the forum for an international group of researchers with expertise in research methods to discuss sports injury methods. We discussed important epidemiological and statistical topics within the field of sports injury research. With this opinion document, we provide the main take-home messages that emerged from the meeting.

Keywords: epidemiology; injury; methodology; statistics.

Publication types

  • Consensus Development Conference

MeSH terms

  • Athletic Injuries* / epidemiology
  • Athletic Injuries* / etiology
  • Athletic Injuries* / prevention & control
  • Athletic Injuries* / therapy
  • Data Interpretation, Statistical
  • Humans
  • Interdisciplinary Communication
  • Research Design* / statistics & numerical data
  • Risk Factors
  • Sports Medicine / methods*