Updates are available Correction dated 2019-10-09

Article History

First Online: 11 September 2019

Change Date: 9 October 2019

Change Type: Correction

Change Details: Page 11, column 2, section 4.2 Injury Epidemiology, paragraph 4:

Compliance with Ethical Standards

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: New Zealand Rugby paid for the article to be published on an ‘open access’ basis. The decision to make the paper open access was taken after peer review had been completed and the paper had been accepted for publication.

: Ken Quarrie and Ian Murphy were employed by New Zealand Rugby throughout the period of the preparation of the manuscript. Their remuneration was not contingent upon preparing or publishing the manuscript. Simon Gianotti was employed by the ACC throughout the period of the preparation of the manuscript. His remuneration was not contingent upon preparing or publishing the manuscript.

: The supplementary workbook referred to in the methods section is available to researchers and the public. It provides interactive charts and tables to assist with visualisation of the differences in rates in injury claim type and/or body region injured between genders and, within genders, between different age groups. Claim data that could be used to identify individuals is not made available by the Accident Compensation Corporation.