Pac-12 CARE-Affiliated Program: structure, methods and initial results
Sport-related concussion has garnered increasing scientific attention and research over the last decade. Collegiate student-athletes represent an important cohort in this field. As such, the Pac-12 CARE-Affiliated Program (CAP) was formed in 2017 as a regional hub of the Concussion Assessment, Resea...
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doaj-42fab0b2fa8b46b8b8ca57e3d61b280c2021-07-23T16:30:23ZengBMJ Publishing GroupBMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine2055-76472021-06-017210.1136/bmjsem-2021-001055Pac-12 CARE-Affiliated Program: structure, methods and initial resultsKimberly G Harmon0Sourav K Poddar1Adam D Bohr2Matthew B McQueen3Jamshid Ghajar4Russell Romano5Theresa D Hernández6Niki Konstantinides7Christopher Giza8Family Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USADepartment of Family Medicine, University of Colorado - Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, USADepartment of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USADepartment of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA2Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California Athletic Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USAPsychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USAIntegrative Physiology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USAPediatrics and Neurosurgery, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USASport-related concussion has garnered increasing scientific attention and research over the last decade. Collegiate student-athletes represent an important cohort in this field. As such, the Pac-12 CARE-Affiliated Program (CAP) was formed in 2017 as a regional hub of the Concussion Assessment, Research and Education (CARE) consortium. CAP is multisite, prospective, longitudinal study that aims to improve student-athlete health by identifying factors associated with concussion incidence and recovery and using this knowledge to inform best clinical practices and policy decisions. CAP employed a staggered rollout across the Pac-12, with the first four institutions enrolling in fall 2018. After receiving institutional review board (IRB) approval, these institutions began consenting student-athletes to share clinical concussion and baseline data for research purposes. Athletes completed baseline testing that included a medical questionnaire, concussion history and a battery for clinical concussion assessments. Concussed student-athletes were given the same battery of assessments in addition to full injury and return to play reports. Clinicians at each university worked with a data coordinator to ensure appropriate reporting, and the Pac-12 Concussion Coordinating Unit at the University of Colorado Boulder provided oversight for quality control of the data study wide. During year 1, CAP consented 2181 student-athletes and tracked 140 concussions. All research was conducted with the appropriate IRB approval across the participating Pac-12 institutions. Data security and dissemination are managed by the Presagia Sports Athlete Electronic Health Record software (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) and QuesGen Systems (San Francisco, California, USA).https://bmjopensem.bmj.com/content/7/2/e001055.full |
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Pac-12 CARE-Affiliated Program: structure, methods and initial results |
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Pac-12 CARE-Affiliated Program: structure, methods and initial results |
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Sport-related concussion has garnered increasing scientific attention and research over the last decade. Collegiate student-athletes represent an important cohort in this field. As such, the Pac-12 CARE-Affiliated Program (CAP) was formed in 2017 as a regional hub of the Concussion Assessment, Research and Education (CARE) consortium. CAP is multisite, prospective, longitudinal study that aims to improve student-athlete health by identifying factors associated with concussion incidence and recovery and using this knowledge to inform best clinical practices and policy decisions. CAP employed a staggered rollout across the Pac-12, with the first four institutions enrolling in fall 2018. After receiving institutional review board (IRB) approval, these institutions began consenting student-athletes to share clinical concussion and baseline data for research purposes. Athletes completed baseline testing that included a medical questionnaire, concussion history and a battery for clinical concussion assessments. Concussed student-athletes were given the same battery of assessments in addition to full injury and return to play reports. Clinicians at each university worked with a data coordinator to ensure appropriate reporting, and the Pac-12 Concussion Coordinating Unit at the University of Colorado Boulder provided oversight for quality control of the data study wide. During year 1, CAP consented 2181 student-athletes and tracked 140 concussions. All research was conducted with the appropriate IRB approval across the participating Pac-12 institutions. Data security and dissemination are managed by the Presagia Sports Athlete Electronic Health Record software (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) and QuesGen Systems (San Francisco, California, USA). |
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