Recommended Methods for Sports Injury and Illness Surveillance: Japanese Society of Clinical Sports Medicine and Japanese Society for Athletic Training Consensus Document

Abstract

The Japanese Society of Clinical Sports Medicine and the Japanese Society for Athletic Training formed an expert working group in December 2020 to establish a set of recommendations to standardize sports injury and illness surveillance methods in Japan. The nominal group technique and Delphi method were used to determine key components of sports injury and illness surveillance. The feasibility of proposed recommendations was considered with the current Japanese collegiate sport context in mind. Experts agreed on eight recommendations that defined reporter and participant characteristics, a list of variables to be collected, methods of expressing data, and data management considerations.