This study identified the areas of poor specificity in national injury hospitalization data and the areas of improvement and deterioration in specificity over time. A descriptive analysis of 10 years of national hospital discharge data for Australia...
Increased survival after spinal cord injury (SCI) worldwide has enhanced the need for quality data that can be compared and shared between centers, countries, as well as across research studies, to better understand how best to prevent and treat SCI....
Background/Objectives: Trauma is the leading cause of mortality and morbidity in children. Traumatic diaphragm rupture (TDR) is a rare but serious injury that can be difficult to identify. The current literature includes individual case reports and s...
The increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in athlete health monitoring and injury prediction presents both technological opportunities and complex ethical challenges. This narrative review critically examines 24 empirical and conceptual stud...
In recent years the number of people who exercise every day has increased dramatically. More precisely, due to COVID period many people have become recreational runners. Recreational running is a regular way to keep active and healthy at any age. Add...
21 September 2018
Mandatory standard regulation is used within Australia to ensure the safety of consumer products, preventing product-related injury. Standard regulation is particularly important for products designed for use by children, who are highly vulnerable to...
Injuries are an unfortunate part of professional sports. This study aims to explore the multi-dimensional impact of injuries in professional basketball, focusing on player performance, team dynamics, and economic outcomes. Employing advanced machine...
The growing intensity and frequency of matches in professional football leagues are related to the increasing physical player load. An incorrect training model results in over- or undertraining, which is related to a raised probability of an injury....
This article presents a novel statistical approach for analyzing occupational accident data from the ESAW database, aiming to improve the evaluation and prediction of accident severity among specific groups of employees. The proposed method combines...
Background/Objectives: Clavicle injuries are common and seem to be frequently subject to diagnostic misclassification. The accurate identification of clavicle fractures is essential, particularly for registry and Big Data analyses. This study aims to...
30 August 2017
Child and youth injury prevention research in Canada has lagged behind other Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development nations, despite existing surveillance systems and longitudinal data. A critical need to improve access to the availab...
Purpose: To investigate community-acquired pressure injuries (CAPIs) in older people by utilizing big data. Design: Retrospective data curation and analysis of inpatient data from two general medical centers between 1 January 2016 and 31 December 201...
29 May 2021
Interscholastic youth cross-country mountain bike racing in the United States has grown significantly over the past decade, yet little is known about the risk profile in this age group. Aiming to protect participants, we implemented a prospective, lo...
21 December 2019
This study analyses factors associated with cyclist injury severity, focusing on vehicle type, route environment, and interactions between them. Data analysed was collected by Spanish police during 2016 and includes records relating to 12,318 drivers...
Background: This literature review examines the prevalence and severity of depression and anxiety symptoms in adolescents following ACL injury, with a focus on gender-disaggregated data. Methods: An electronic search was conducted across databases, i...
A template for visually representing factors affecting and affected by the occurrence of sport injury is presented. The visualization template is designed to facilitate comparison among graphic depictions of models and data pertaining to the antecede...
The immense resources required and the ethical concerns for animal-based toxicological studies have driven the development of in vitro and in silico approaches. Recently, we validated our approach in which the expression of a set of genes is uniquely...
Background/Objective: It is difficult to predict perinatal brain injury, and performing brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) based on suspected injury remains a clinical challenge. Therefore, we aimed to develop a reliable method for predicting per...
7 July 2016
A challenge in utilising health sector injury data for Product Safety purposes is that clinically coded data have limited ability to inform regulators about product involvement in injury events, given data entry is bound by a predefined set of codes....
This research paper examines Sports Analytics, focusing on injury patterns in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and their impact on players’ performance. It employs a unique dataset to identify common NBA injuries, determine the most af...
This study utilized advanced data mining and machine learning to examine player injuries in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 2000–01 to 2022–23. By analyzing a dataset of 2296 players, including sociodemographics, injury rec...
Neuronal death is a central event in spinal cord injury (SCI) pathophysiology. Despite its importance, we have a fragmentary vision of the process. In our opinion, the research community has accumulated enough information to provide a more detailed,...
In this paper, we aim to detect crop injury from glyphosate, a herbicide, by both traditionally used spectral indices and newly extracted features with leaf hyperspectral reflectance data for non-Glyphosate-Resistant (non-GR) soybean and non-GR cotto...
One major challenge in optimizing vehicle underbody structures for blast protection is the trade-off between the high cost of physical tests and the limited accuracy of simulations. We introduce a predictive framework that is co-driven by limited phy...
Background: Neonates, particularly those born prematurely or with low birth weight, face an elevated risk of developing Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) due to various factors. Perinatal and maternal considerations, often linked to preterm delivery, contrib...
We used high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) methods to quantify aspartate, GABA, and glutamine levels in the spinal cord of larval sea lampreys following a complete spinal cord injury. Mature larval sea lampreys recover spontaneously from a...
7 July 2016
The second year of life is a time of rapid developmental changes. This paper aims to describe the pattern of unintentional injuries to one-year old children in three-month age bands to better understand the risks associated with developmental stages...
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) represents a major public health problem, being a leading cause of disability and mortality among young people in developed countries. Head trauma occurs across all age groups, each experiencing consistently high rates of...
Background/Objectives: The GCS is widely used to assess a patient’s level of consciousness after trauma. Although not a diagnostic tool for traumatic brain injury (TBI), prehospital clinicians frequently rely on GCS findings—along with pu...
Using motorcycle crash data from 2016 to 2019, this paper aims to uncover and compare the risk factors that influence the severity of motorcyclist injuries sustained in daytime and nighttime motorcycle crashes in Thailand. Mixed-ordered probit models...
Predicting driver injury severity is critical for enhancing road safety, but it is complicated because fatal accidents inherently create class imbalance within datasets. This study conducts a comparative analysis of machine-learning (ML) and deep-lea...
3 August 2021
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention alerted of a suspected outbreak of lung illness associated with using E-cigarette products in September 2019. At the time that the CDC published its alert little was known about the causes of the outb...
In the intersecting fields of data mining (DM) and sports analytics, the impact of socioeconomic, demographic, and injury-related factors on sports performance and economics has been extensively explored. A novel methodology is proposed and evaluated...
This study investigates the impact of injuries on National Basketball Association (NBA) player performance over 20 seasons, using large-scale performance data and a statistical evaluation. Injury events were matched with player–game performance...
Incidents are caused by a variety of factors, and there are correlations between incident causative factors. How to effectively clarify the importance of incidental injury-causing factors and their correlations is the current technical challenge in t...
Clavicle injuries are common, but only few case reports describe combined clavicular injuries (CCI). CCI include combinations between clavicular fractures and acromioclavicular/sternoclavicular joint dislocations (SCJD). We present the first general...
Crash data analysis is key to improving road safety, but imbalanced data challenges accurate predictions for severe crashes, often leading to biased outcomes. This study investigates crash severity among young drivers (aged 17–24) in England, u...
The aim of the present study was to investigate if the presence of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury risk factors depicted in the laboratory would reflect at-risk patterns in football-specific field data. Twenty-four female footballers (14.9 &p...
Background: Rugby Union’s physical demands lead to high injury rates, requiring players to optimize their abilities. Altitude training enhances performance but poses risks to injuries. Methods: This cross-sectional observational study compares...
Background: In patients with cervical spinal cord injury (SCI), we need to make accurate prognostic predictions in the acute phase for more effective rehabilitation. We hypothesized that a multivariate prognosis would be useful for patients with cerv...
Pressure injuries pose significant health risks, especially for the elderly, immobile individuals, and those with sensory impairments. These injuries can rapidly become chronic, making initial diagnosis important. Due to the difficulty of transportin...
This work aimed to develop a model to assess the likelihood of injury in track and field athletes, and to establish which factors have the greatest impact. Tests verifying their significance were also reviewed, as well as the method for selecting var...
27 September 2021
Background: Injury is a leading contributor to the global disease burden in children, affecting their health-related quality of life (HRQoL)—yet valid estimates of burden are absent. Methods: This study pooled longitudinal data from five cohort studi...
Recent advances in emergency medicine and the co-ordinated delivery of trauma care mean more critically-injured patients now reach the hospital alive and survive life-saving operations. Indeed, between 2008 and 2017, the odds of surviving a major tra...
Study Objectives: The Federal Interagency Traumatic Brain Injury Research (FITBIR) Informatics System contains individual-patient-level traumatic brain injury (TBI) data, which when combined, allows for the examination of rates and outcomes for key s...
The aim of this research is to shed light on the complex interactions between player workload, traits, match-related factors, football performance, and injuries in the English Premier League. Using a range of statistical and machine learning techniqu...
To help reduce the number of pedestrians lying on the road suffering fatal or severe injuries as a result of vehicle collisions, we investigated the influencing factors. We conducted an analysis of the records of the Institute for Traffic Accident Re...
Background: Runners have high incidence of repetitive load injuries, and habitual runners often use smartwatches with embedded IMU sensors to track their performance and training. If accelerometer information from such IMUs can provide information ab...
The scientific debate about sustainability in the agricultural sector is growing worldwide, especially thanks to the increasing awareness of customers towards the impact of their consumption behaviors. While a great deal of attention is given to the...
The severity of workplace injuries varies by industry. Information on workplace injuries can enable firms and governments to effectively improve their safety performance based on the specific contexts of each industry. Incorporating the three workpla...
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