Citation

Baugh CM, Kroshus E, Bourlas AP, Perry KI. J. Law Med. Ethics 2014; 42(3): 297-313.

Affiliation

Clinical Research and Program Coordinator at the Boston University Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center, a Research Instructor in Neurology at the Boston University School of Medicine, and a Lab Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/jlme.12147

PMID

25264088

Abstract

State concussion laws and sport-league policies are important tools for protecting public health, but also present implementation challenges. Both state laws and league policies often require athletes provide written acknowledgement of having received concussion-related information and/or of their responsibility to report concussion-related symptoms. This paper examines these requirements in two ways: an analysis of the variation in state laws and sport-league policies and a study of their effects in a cohort of collegiate football players.

Keywords: American football;

Language: en