Gender‐ and Sex‐specific Sports‐related Injury Research in Emergency Medicine: A Consensus on Future Research Direction and Focused Application |
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| Authors: | Neha P. Raukar MD MS Mark R. Zonfrillo MD MSCE Kathleen Kane MD Moira Davenport MD Tamara R. Espinoza MD MPH Jessica Weiland MD Vanessa Franco MD PhD Federico E. Vaca MD MPH |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Emergency Medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, , Providence, RI;2. Division of Emergency Medicine and Center for Injury Research and Prevention, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, , Philadelphia, PA;3. Department of Emergency Medicine, Lehigh Valley Hospital/USF Morsani College of Medicine, , Allentown, PA;4. Department of Emergency Medicine, Allegheny General Hospital, , Pittsburgh, PA;5. Department of Emergency Medicine, Emory University, , Atlanta, GA;6. Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, , Los Angeles, CA;7. Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, , New Haven, CT |
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| Abstract: | Title IX, the commercialization of sports, the social change in sports participation, and the response to the obesity epidemic have contributed to the rapid proliferation of participation in both competitive organized sports and nontraditional athletic events. As a consequence, emergency physicians are regularly involved in the acute diagnosis, management, disposition, and counseling of a broad range of sports‐related pathology. Three important and highly publicized mechanisms of injury in sports relevant to emergency medicine (EM) include concussion, heat illness, and sudden cardiac death. In conjunction with the 2014 Academic Emergency Medicine consensus conference “Gender‐specific Research in Emergency Care: Investigate, Understand, and Translate How Gender Affects Patient Outcomes,” a consensus group consisting of experts in EM, emergency neurology, sports medicine, and public health convened to deliberate and develop research questions that could ultimately advance the field of sports medicine and allow for meaningful application in the emergency department (ED) clinical setting. Sex differences in injury risk, diagnosis, ED treatment, and counseling are identified in each of these themes. This article presents the consensus‐based priority research agenda. |
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