Methodological considerations for cost of injury studies in sport: a scoping review
Creators: name: Dr. Tania Gallo
name: Dr. Michael Drew
name: Professor Gordon Waddington
name: Dr. Hannah Carter
name: Turnbull, Matthew Richard
name: Dr. Liam Toohey
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Recreational Therapy
subject: Other Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Other Rehabilitation and Therapy
subject: Rehabilitation and Therapy
subject: Sports Sciences
subject: Physiotherapy
subject: Medical Sciences
subject: Health and Medical Administration
subject: Financial cost of injuries in sport

description: Sports related Injuries and illnesses come at a financial cost. The healthcare expenses or lost productivity due to time-loss from the sport or absenteeism from work may result in considerable financial burden to the athlete, the team, the sports organisation, or the wider community1. Cost of illness (COI) studies aim to measure the financial burden of diseases in monitory units and the COI approach includes both direct healthcare costs and the indirect costs of lost production from death, disease, or injury 2. The COI approach has extended to cost of sports injury (COSI) studies that have aimed to show the importance of sports injuries in terms of the economic cost and the cost effectiveness of injury prevention strategies3 4. COSI studies are not limited to the assessment of prevention strategies and an understanding of what the financial cost is as an outcome of injury or illness may inform decision making practice for multiple stakeholders within the sports industry. Inconsistencies in the way COI studies are conducted and reported have been described as potentially difficult to interpret for those non-expert readers 5. Common methods, concepts and scopes of costs used in COI studies have since been published to assist the interpretation and critical evaluation of these studies 5 6. To the authors knowledge, the scope of COSI studies appears limited and a COI approach to sporting populations may not exist. We hypothesise that the methodology of existing COSI studies vary due to the novelty of this topic in sports populations. What are the common methods, concepts and scopes used in COSI studies? What method considerations can be applied for future COSI research? To answer these questions, we will conduct a systematic scoping review that aims to (1) provide an overview of COSI studies in the literature, (2) to summarise the methodological scope of COSI studies in order to identify common methods, concepts, and approaches and (3) provide method considerations for future COSI research. References: 1. Walia B, Boudreaux CJ. The cost of players’ injuries to professional sports leagues and other sports organizations. Managerial Finance 2020 2. Pike J, Grosse SD. Friction Cost Estimates of Productivity Costs in Cost-of-Illness Studies in Comparison with Human Capital Estimates: A Review. Applied Health Economics and Health Policy 2018;16(6):765-78. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40258-018-0416-4 3. Ozturk S, Kilic D. What is the economic burden of sports injuries? 2013 4. Lutter C, Jacquet C, Verhagen E, et al. Does prevention pay off? Economic aspects of sports injury prevention: a systematic review. British journal of sports medicine 2022;56(8):470-76. 5. Larg A, Moss JR. Cost-of-illness studies: a guide to critical evaluation. Pharmacoeconomics 2011;29(8):653-71. doi: 10.2165/11588380-000000000-00000 6. Jo C. Cost-of-illness studies: concepts, scopes, and methods. Clinical and molecular hepatology 2014;20(4):327.