Level of Overestimation Among Dutch Recreational Skiers: Unskilled Tourists in the Mountains.

Objective: To examine the level of overestimation (LO), associated factors, and identify the group of severe overestimators, among recreational skiers.

Design: Cross-sectional observational study.

Setting: An intermediate difficulty slope in an artificial snow indoor ski hall, and one in the mountains (Flachau, Austria).

Estimating skills level in recreational skiing: Development and validation of a practical multidimensional instrument.

Skiing and snowboarding are both popular recreational alpine sports, with substantial injury risk of variable severity. Although skills level has repeatedly been associated with injury risk, a validated measure to accurately estimate the actual skills level without objective assessment is missing. This study aimed to develop a practical validated instrument, to better estimate the actual skills level of recreational skiers, based on the criteria of the Dutch Skiing Federation (DSF), and covering five different skill domains.

Injury patterns after skiing and snowboarding sports accidents.

Background: Alpine sports are associated with risk of serious injuries. To gain insight into factors that may help reduce injury severity, accident characteristics and injury patterns were analyzed in a cohort of injured skiers and snowboarders.

Methods: All patients with Alpine sports-related injuries, reporting the injury to a leading medical assistance organization in the Netherlands in the period of 2013-2016, were contacted.

[Medical scribe in a trauma surgery outpatient clinic; shorter, cheaper consultations and satisfied doctors].

Objective: To measure the effects of a medical scribe in an orthopaedic trauma surgery outpatient clinic on consultation time, patient satisfaction, doctor satisfaction and costs.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Method: At a level-1 trauma centre in the Netherlands, all standard outpatient trauma consultations were performed either with or without a medical scribe, for a period of 10 weeks.

Comparison of MRI, CT and bone scintigraphy for suspected scaphoid fractures.

Purpose: The best diagnostic modality for confirmation of the diagnosis of a scaphoid fracture that is not visible on the initial radiograph (occult scaphoid fracture) is still subject of debate. The aim of this study was to compare the accuracy of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT) and bone scintigraphy (BS) for the diagnosis of these occult scaphoid fractures.

Patients And Methods: In a study period of 12 months, 33 consecutive patients with a clinically suspected scaphoid fracture without a fracture on the scaphoid radiographs were evaluated with MRI, CT and BS.