Epidemiology of Surgical Treatment of Adolescent Sports Injuries in the United States: Analysis of the MarketScan Commercial Claims and Encounters Database

• Main Authors: Nicholas Bonazza, M.D (Author), Dallas M. Smuin, M.D (Author), Nicholas Sterling, M.D., Ph.D (Author), Djibril Ba, M.P.H (Author), Guodong Liu, Ph.D (Author), Douglas L. Leslie, Ph.D (Author), William Hennrikus, M.D (Author), Aman Dhawan, M.D (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2019-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Purpose: To determine whether there is increasing surgical management of adolescent sports injuries and whether the average age of surgical patients is decreasing. Methods: The Truven Health MarketScan Database was searched from 2008 to 2014 for patients 10 to 19 years of age using the International...