Utilization of the clinical laboratory for the implementation of concussion biomarkers in collegiate football and the necessity of personalized and predictive athlete specific reference intervals

EPMA Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Schulte, Stefanie ^a   Rasmussen, Natalie N ^a,b   McBeth, Joseph W ^a   Richards, Patrick Q ^a   Yochem, Eric ^a   Petron, David J ^a   Strathmann, Frederick G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ARUP INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomarker panel; Blood test; Collegiate athletes; Football; NSE; Predictive diagnostics; S100B; Sports related concussion; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; NEURON SPECIFIC ENOLASE; PROTEIN S100B;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE-DERIVED REFERENCE INTERVAL; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL LABORATORY; COLLEGE; CONCUSSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FOLLOW UP; FOOTBALL; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RATING SCALE; REFERENCE VALUE; SPORT-RELATED CONCUSSION; VALIDATION STUDY;

EID: 84955292690     PISSN: 18785077     EISSN: 18785085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13167-016-0050-x     Document Type: Article

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