Reliability and Validity of the Sport Concussion Assessment Tool-3 (SCAT3) in High School and Collegiate Athletes

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Funding Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command under award number W81XWH-12-1-0004. This publication was also supported by the Clinical and Translational Science Institute grant 1UL1-RR031973(-01) and by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences/National Institutes of Health grant 8UL1TR000055. P.M. is a co-investigator, collaborator, or consultant on grants relating to mild traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) funded by several governmental organizations. He is directly employed by the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia and is based at the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health. He is a co-chair of the Australian Centre for Research into Injury in Sport and its Prevention, which is one of the Research Centres for Prevention of Injury and Protection of Athlete Health supported by the International Olympic Committee. He is a co-chair of the International Concussion in Sport Group. He has a clinical and consulting practice in general and sports neurology. He receives book royalties from McGraw-Hill and was employed in an editorial capacity by the British Medical Journal Publishing Group (2001-2008). He has been reimbursed by the government, professional scientific bodies, and sporting bodies for travel costs related to presenting research on mild TBIs and sport-related concussions at meetings, scientific conferences, and symposiums. He received consultancy fees in 2010 from Axon Sports (US) for the development of educational material (which was not renewed) and has received research funding since 2001 from Cogstate Inc. He has not received any research funding, salary, or other monies from the Australian Football League (AFL), Federation Internationale de Football Association, or National Football League. The AFL funds research at the Florey Institute under a legal memorandum; P.M. does not receive any money from this industry-funded research. P.M. serves on the AFL Concussion Working Group in an honorary capacity. He is a co-founder and shareholder in 2 biomedical companies (involved in eHealth and compression garment technologies) but does not hold any individual shares in any company related to concussion or brain injury assessments or technologies. He did not receive any form of financial support directly related to this article.