ArticleThe American journal of bioethics : AJOB2013
Sports medicine and ethics.
Article in The American journal of bioethics : AJOB, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Rethinking elite sport as high-stakes work: an organizational perspective on well-being and sustainable performance.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2026Article
- The Consistency of Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Prevention Definitions in the Context of Musculoskeletal Sports Injuries: A Rapid Review and Critical Exploration of Common Terms of Usage.Sports medicine - open · 2025Review
- 'Good communication and good team building, it's half of the work in managing a player': how team doctors perceive communication in the European professional men's football context.BMJ open sport & exercise medicine · 2025Article
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- Creating a postgraduate syllabus for a team care diploma examination: a Delphi study.BMJ open sport & exercise medicine · 2024Article
- Decisions about College Football during Covid-19: An Ethical Analysis.The Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics · 2023Article
- Secondary School Athletic Trainers' Experiences With Organizational Conflict: A Comparison Across Employment Models.Journal of athletic training · 2022Article
- A Framework for Clinicians to Improve the Decision-Making Process in Return to Sport.Sports medicine - open · 2022Review
- Winning at all costs: a review of risk-taking behaviour and sporting injury from an occupational safety and health perspective.Sports medicine - open · 2019Review
- A Proposal to Address NFL Club Doctors' Conflicts of Interest and to Promote Player Trust.The Hastings Center report · 2016Article
- Pressure on Sports Medicine Clinicians to Prematurely Return Collegiate Athletes to Play After Concussion.Journal of athletic training · 2015Article
- Ethical implications of an incidentally discovered asymptomatic Chiari malformation in a competitive athlete.Continuum (Minneapolis, Minn.) · 2014Article
- A Call to Action for Team Physicians.Sports healthArticle
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Abstract
Physicians working in the world of competitive sports face unique ethical challenges, many of which center around conflicts of interest. Team-employed physicians have obligations to act in the club's best interest while caring for the individual athlete. As such, they must balance issues like protecting versus sharing health information, as well as issues regarding autonomous informed consent versus paternalistic decision making in determining whether an athlete may compete safely. Moreover, the physician has to deal with an athlete's decisions about performance enhancement and return to play, pursuit of which may not be in the athlete's long-term best interests but may benefit the athlete and team in the short term. These difficult tasks are complicated by the lack of evidence-based standards in a field influenced by the lure of financial gains for multiple parties involved. In this article, we review ethical issues in sports medicine with specific attention paid to American professional football.
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