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The Gillette Stadium Experience: A Retrospective Review of Mass Gathering Events From 2010 to 2015[1]
Summary
A retrospective review of every mass-gathering event at Gillette Stadium (capacity 68,756) from January 2010 to September 2015: 232 events, 8,260,349 attendees, 8,157 medical contacts. Overall rates were 10 presentations and 1.6 transports per 10,000 attendees, with a non-significant trend toward higher rates at postseason NFL games. Concerts had significantly higher presentation AND transport rates than all other event types. Presenting concerns varied by event type and gender; transport rate increased with age; and at cold-weather events, transport rates increased as temperatures fell. Overall, on-site physicians did not impact presentation or transport rates in this single-venue series.
Key findings
- 232 events / 8.26M attendees / 8,157 contacts at one NFL stadium (2010–2015).
- Overall: 10 presentations and 1.6 transports per 10,000 attendees.
- Concerts significantly exceeded all other event types on both rates.
- Cold-weather events: transport rates rose as temperature fell — cold, not just heat, drives demand.
- On-site physicians did not measurably change rates in this series (contrast Grange 2003 — single-venue context matters).
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