Why the study?
Lack of familiarity with current recommendations diminishes clinician confidence to perform preparticipation physical evaluations and identify youth at increased risk from sport participation.
This article reviews the current guidelines for performing a preparticipation physical evaluation to identify children and adolescents at increased risk for morbidity or mortality from sport participation.
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May improve identification of at-risk youth athletes; leaves open validation of specific screening protocols in larger cohorts.
Miller et al. (2019) studied this question.
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