Sports Medicine Delivery Models: Legal Risks.

J Athl Train

College of Health and Human Services, The University of Toledo, OH. Dr Ingersoll is now at the University of Central Florida, Orlando.

Published: December 2019

Educational institutions sponsoring competitive athletics may use an athletics model, academic model, or medical model for delivery of sports medicine to student-athletes. Four types of legal risk are considered for these 3 models: litigation, contract, regulatory, and structural. The athletics model presents the greatest legal risk to institutions, whereas the medical model presents the least legal risk. Institutional administrators should consider these risks when selecting or maintaining a delivery model for sports medicine.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6922558PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.4085/1062-6050-83-19DOI Listing

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