TY - JOUR AU - Davies, Madeleine A. M. AU - Lawrence, Tom AU - Edwards, Antoinette AU - Lecky, Fiona AU - McKay, Carly D. AU - Stokes, Keith A. AU - Williams, Sean PY - 2020 DA - 2020/04/27 TI - Serious sports-related injury in England and Wales from 2012-2017: a study protocol JO - Injury Epidemiology SP - 14 VL - 7 IS - 1 AB - Physical activity is an important component of healthy lifestyles, with a central role in morbidity prevention. However, sporting and physical activity also involve an inherent injury risk. Some sports and activities have a higher injury risk, and may involve more severe injuries. Furthermore, injuries of a severe nature have substantial individual and societal consequences, including the burden of assessment, treatment, and potential on-going care costs. There are limited data on severe sports injury risk in England and Wales, and no national data describing risk across sports. The aims of this study are to identify the cases and incidence of: i) paediatric and ii) adult severe sports injury from 2012 to 2017; and to describe injury incidence in individual sports. SN - 2197-1714 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40621-020-00243-4 DO - 10.1186/s40621-020-00243-4 ID - Davies2020 ER -