NEW: 5. Injury Consult Snapshot - Closing an Injury
CLOSING AN INJURY
According to the Data Dictionary, an injury record should be closed when "the injury has recovered from a medical perspective and no longer requires active clinical intervention."
Maintaining accurate and up-to-date injury records is essential. A key part of this is ensuring all injury records are closed once the athlete‘s injury has resolved OR the athlete no longer requires care.
How to Close an Injury Record
Injury records can only be closed via the Injury Diagnosis form. To do so:
- Clinicians should open a new Doctors and Physios (Injury) Consults form.
- Navigate to the athlete’s Injury Diagnosis record by clicking on the relevant injury.
- Scroll to the bottom of the form and update the athlete’s Injury Status to either Full training and Competition (if not already done).
- This will enable the option to “Close” the record.
- Select “Save and Lock” to finalise and permanently lock the entry.
Additional Notes
It is recognised that clinicians—particularly those not embedded within sporting environments—may find it challenging to keep injury records current, especially when athletes miss review appointments (often due to having recovered).
However, it remains the clinician’s responsibility to maintain accurate records for the relevant National Sporting Organisation (NSO) or National Institute Network (NIN) provider. This ensures that reliable injury data is available to the appropriate governing body.