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Who cares? You won't have anything if nobody participates. My point is, even without the specific names, a lot things can be learned from just treating injuries as single events. There's no need to track individuals at this fledgling stage.
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The whole point of developing this database is that it is NOT a "fledgling stage" simple study. Already been there, done that. Most published information is exactly as you describe, above. Retrospective snapshots.
This database was funded solely as it is a big, valuable, very real, in-depth, national-breadth, ongoing database that will yield an unbelievably valuable amount of information, for a whole lot of parameters, for a whole lot of scientists, over future years.
The "who cares" and suspicious are certainly free to choose to withhold any data they could contribute.