A technology-enabled electronic incident report to document and facilitate management of sport concussion: A cohort study of youth and young adults.

ABSTRACT: Despite the widespread awareness of concussion across all levels of sport, the management of concussion from youth to college is inconsistent and fragmented. A fundamental gap contributing to inconsistent care is the lack of a scalable, systematic approach to document initial injury characteristics following concussion. The purpose of this study was to determine differences in injury profiles and management of youth, high school, and college athletes using a mobile application for incident report documentation.A cohort study was conducted in which concussion electronic incident report data from 46 high schools and colleges, and Cleveland Clinic ambulatory concussion clinics were gathered and analyzed.In sum, 1421 (N = 88 youth, N = 1171 high school and N = 162 college) athletes with sport-

SUBMITTER: Linder SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6455956 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature