Abstract

Introduction: Australian football (AF) consistently outranks other team sports in the frequency of hospitalisations and emergency department (ED) presentations for sports injury treatment. Understanding the profile of these and other ‘medical-attention’ injuries is important for developing preventative strategies and thereby reducing the health-care burden resulting from AF injuries. Currently, hospital and ED surveillance systems provide the only ongoing source of epidemiological data on community sports injuries at the population level.

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