The rate at which new musculoskeletal injuries occur in a population over a defined time.
MSKI incidence expresses new musculoskeletal injuries as a rate per unit of exposure, commonly per 1000 person-weeks or person-years, to allow comparison of injury burden across cohorts or programs. Such comparisons are only valid when injury definitions, surveillance intensity, and exposure measurement are consistent, which is frequently not the case across pooled surveillance studies.
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