Broglio, Steven P. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2282-9325
McAllister, Thomas
Katz, Barry P.
LaPradd, Michelle
Zhou, Wenxian
McCrea, Michael A.
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Hoy, April
Hazzard, Joseph B.
Kelly, Louise A.
DiFiori, John
Ortega, Justus D.
Port, Nicholas
Putukian, Margot
Langford, Dianne
McDevitt, Jane
Campbell, Darren
Jackson, Jonathan C.
McGinty, Gerald
Estevez, Carlos
Cameron, Kenneth L.
Houston, Megan N.
Svoboda, Steven J.
Susmarski, Adam James
Giza, Chris
Benjamin, Holly J.
Kaminski, Thomas W.
Buckley, Thomas
Clugston, James R.
Schmidt, Julianne
Feigenbaum, Luis A.
Eckner, J. T.
Mihalik, Jason
Miles, Jessica Dysart
Anderson, Scott
Arbogast, Kristy
Master, Christina L.
Kontos, Anthony P.
Chrisman, Sara P. D.
Brooks, M. Alison
Rowson, Steve
Duma, Stefan M.
Miles, Chris
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Collegiate Athletic Association
U.S. Department of Defense (W81XWH-14-2-0151)
Article History
Accepted: 8 August 2021
First Online: 24 August 2021
Declarations
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: Data collection and sharing for this project was conducted with support from the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Department of Defense (DOD). The U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity, 820 Chandler Street, Fort Detrick MD 21702-5014, is the awarding and administering acquisition office. This work was supported by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, through the Combat Casualty Care Research Program, endorsed by the Department of Defense, through the Joint Program Committee 6/Combat Casualty Care Research Program—Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury Program under Award No. W81XWH1420151. Opinions, interpretations, conclusions and recommendations are those of the authors and are not necessarily endorsed by the Department of Defense.
: SB, TM, MM contributed to the design and implementation of the investigation, drafting and revision of the manuscript; BK contributed to the design and implementation of the investigation, statistical analyses and interpretation, and drafting and revision of the manuscript; MLP and WZ contributed to the statistical analyses and interpretation, and drafting and revision of the manuscript; CARE Consortium Investigators contributed to the implementation of the investigation and revision of the manuscript.
: Steven Broglio, Thomas McAllister, Barry Katz, Michelle LaPradd, Wenxian Zhou, and Michael McCrea received funding from the NCAA and the Department of Defense to complete this investigation and to cover travel costs related to the study.
: This study was completed following approval from respective local Institutional Review Boards and the United States Army Human Research Protection Office. This study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
: Data used in this investigation are available in the Federal Interagency Traumatic Brain Injury Research (FITBIR) Informatics System ().
: The specific analytic coding that was used relies on the data set prepared from the full data set of over 38,000 participants, but the analytic techniques used are standard (e.g. Cox proportional hazards models) and available in all statistical software packages. For those interested, the authors can be contacted for the code and with questions.