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. 2019 Mar 16;7(3):66.
doi: 10.3390/sports7030066.

What Is Performance? A Scoping Review of Performance Outcomes as Study Endpoints in Athletics

Benjamin P Raysmith  1   2 , Jenny Jacobsson  3   4 , Michael K Drew  5   6   7 , Toomas Timpka  8
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What Is Performance? A Scoping Review of Performance Outcomes as Study Endpoints in Athletics

Benjamin P Raysmith et al. Sports (Basel). .

Abstract

Purpose: This review set out to summarise, define, and provide future direction towards the use of performance outcome measures as endpoints in research performed at international benchmark events in athletics.

Methods: Scoping review methodology was applied through a search of the PubMed and Sports Discus databases and a systematic article selection procedure. Articles that met the inclusion criteria underwent triage for further quantitative and qualitative analysis. A concept chart was generated to describe the methods by which performance had been measured and introduce descriptive labels for theoretical and practical application.

Results: None of 2972 articles primarily identified from the database search met the triage standards for quantitative data extraction. Eleven articles were included in a qualitative analysis. The analysis identified the common methods by which performance has been measured, reported and analysed. The resulting concept chart collates labels from the qualitative analysis (categories, themes, and constructs) with sports practice labels (performance metrics, framework, and analysis).

Conclusions: The state of knowledge concerning methods to employ performance metrics as endpoints in studies performed at major competitions in athletics has been summarised. Constructing a methodology that combines the performance metric variables (continuous and ordinal) that are currently utilised as endpoints remains a challenge.

Keywords: achievement; athletic performance; performance evaluation; ranking; success.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Flow chart of Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis Protocols (PRISMA) article selection process.
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Concept chart illustrating objective methodology to identify performance outcome (PO) as an endpoint measure.
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