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Sports-Related Brain Injury: Library Guide

This guide is designed to help students, faculty, and staff interested in sports-related brain injury.

Ongoing Registries

Texas Sports Concussion Registry
The registry would constitute the first step toward the development of one of the first statewide concussion registries in the United States. The project aims to document and track concussion incidence, examine injury characteristics, and identify risk factors among school-aged athletes.

Books & Government Documents

Registries for evaluating patient outcomes a user's guide by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: 2007
Useful guide for the creation and evaluation of clinical registries.

How registries can help performance measurement improve care
White Paper. June 2010. Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)

Websites

Registry Studies: Why and How
Clinical Device Group White pages blog entry
Canadian Neurological Registry Best Practice Guidelines and Toolkit
The guidelines and toolkit were developed through 17 months of work including a literature review, patient focus groups, and consultation with clinicians

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