Programs

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The Datalys Center is an independent 501(c)3 organization that provides epidemiological research services. Our core competency is managing and reporting multiyear, multicenter injury surveillance programs. We also conduct a variety of other short-and long-term research projects. 

Please contact us for more information regarding ongoing short- and long-term research projects.

NATIONAL COLLEGIATE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INJURY SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM (NCAA ISP)

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The NCAA ISP is the largest collegiate sports injury database. The Datalys Center manages all aspects of the NCAA ISP, and findings help shape policies aimed at minimizing injury risk across more than 20 sports.

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HIGH SCHOOL NATIONAL ATHLETIC TREATMENT, INJURY, AND OUTCOMES NETWORK SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM (NATION-SP)

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NATION is a unique system that integrates injury surveillance, treatment, and patient outcomes to create guidance for safer gameplay.

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HIGH SCHOOL REPORTING INFORMATION ONLINE (HIGH SCHOOL RIOTM)

High School RIO, the longest standing youth sport injury surveillance system in the US, directly informs the National Federation of State High School Associations’ (NFHS) decisions affecting health and safety for high school athletes. The NFHS relies on our technology platform, project management, and data analysis expertise for all aspects of High School RIO operations.

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CARE (CONCUSSION ASSESSMENT RESEARCH AND EDUCATION) CONSORTIUM

The CARE Consortium represents the largest study of the natural history of concussion in the world. The Datalys Center works with institutional and technology partners to facilitate smooth operations of this large multi-site research study and to ensure high quality data.

CONSORTIUM FOR CATASTROPHIC INJURY MONITORING IN SPORT

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As a member of this Consortium, the Datalys Center supports the National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research (NCCSIR). 

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These programs would not be possible without the dedication of hundreds of sports professionals and their interest in supporting Datalys Center’s mission to increase awareness of sports injury. If you are an athlete, athletic trainer, coach, or otherwise involved in school/collegiate sports and want to get involved in one of our programs, please reach out!

Athletic Trainers interested in injury and illness prevention can contact the Datalys Center for opportunities to participate in our youth, high school, or collegiate injury surveillance programs. 

Program-Specific Requests

The Datalys Center provides a process for obtaining de-identified data from the High School Reporting Information Online (High School RIO™) and High School National Athletic Treatment, Injury, and Outcomes Network Surveillance Program (NATION-SP). Researchers must submit a DISC application.  

Note: Requested data will not be released without proof of human subjects’ protections approval or exemption from the primary investigator’s Institutional Review Board. Applications under IRB review will be considered, but data will not be released until proof of approval or exemption is provided.

High-School RIO™ Application
NATION-SP Application
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The ISP is a data collection initiative designed to track and analyze medical illnesses and injuries that result from sports participation. Since 1982, athletic trainers have collaborated with the NCAA to create the world’s largest collegiate sports injury database. Today, the NCAA Sport Science Institute partners with the Datalys Center to manage the ISP and help inform injury prevention policies and practices in college sports.

Over the past 10 years, data captured in the NCAA ISP have been instrumental to various NCAA committees and for participating schools to monitor injury trends over time, inform policy and sports rules changes, and make evidence-based decisions to improve health and safety. To help make the data submission process more manageable, the ISP is compatible with the following Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems:

  • Athletic Trainer System 
  • SportsWare Online 
  • Healthy Roster
  • PyraMED
  • InPOWERIQ 

With participation growing each year, the scope and depth of the data collected by the ISP has grown over the years.

Video Links: 

  1. Athletic Trainer System – Watch Now
  2. Datalys Injury Surveillance Tool – Watch Now
  3. Healthy Roster – Watch Now
  4. SportsWare Online – Watch Now
  5. INPOWERiQ – Watch Now

 

The National Athletic Treatment, Injury, and Outcomes Network (NATION), funded through the generous grant support of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association Research and Education Foundation, is the first project integrating injury surveillance, treatment, and patient outcomes using data gathered by athletic trainers (AT) in public high schools. 

The purpose of NATION™ is threefold. First, NATION describes both time loss and non-time loss injuries in the high school setting. Non-time loss injuries are important because they often include overuse injuries and injuries or illnesses that may become significant health issues. Second, NATION describes the frequency and value of healthcare provided by ATs in the high school setting. Lastly, NATION evaluates the patient-reported health outcomes related to student-athletes provided care by ATs in the high school setting.

High School RIO™ is the internet-based data collection tool used in the National High School Sports-Related Injury Surveillance Study. This study, first implemented during the 2005/06 academic year and funded by the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS), has been managed by the Datalys Center since 2019. High School RIO has evolved to fulfill the needs of student-athletes, parents, pediatric sports medicine clinicians, high school athletic directors, local/state high school athletic associations/administrators, and the NFHS.

High School RIO captures athletic exposures (number of athlete practices and number of athlete competitions per week), injuries (body site, diagnosis, severity, etc.), and injury events (mechanism, activity, position/event, field/court location, etc.) data weekly throughout the academic year using certified athletic trainers (ATs) as data reporters.

Participating ATs receive a small stipend and an individualized school report. The data are used to produce nationwide estimates on time loss injuries in high school sports and serves as the first step toward developing, implementing, and evaluating evidence-based, targeted prevention programs to reduce the number and severity of injuries among high school athletes.

ORIGINAL HIGH SCHOOL RIO™ STUDY OF 100 NATIONALLY REPRESENTATIVE SCHOOLS REPORTING FOR THE INITIAL 9 SPORTS OF INTEREST:

EXPANDED HIGH SCHOOL RIO™ STUDY OF A CONVENIENCE SAMPLE OF US SCHOOLS REPORTING FOR ALL SPORTS OF INTEREST:

The Concussion Assessment Research and Education (CARE) Consortium, the largest prospective concussion study to date, endeavors to provide necessary infrastructure and scientific expertise to study concussion. Funded by the NCAA and the Department of Defense, the CARE study has enrolled more than 53,000 student athletes and service academy cadets and midshipmen from 30 schools and four US service academies. The Datalys Center manages data collection and quality assurance.

Athletic Trainers interested in participating in injury and illness surveillance can contact the Datalys Center for opportunities to participate in our programs. info@datalyscenter.org or toll-free at 855-832-4222.

The National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research (NCCSIR) ‘s mission is to surveil catastrophic injuries and illnesses related to participation in organized sports in the United States at the professional, collegiate, high school, and youth levels of play.

The most common types of fatal events are acute trauma to the head/neck/spine, exertional-related heat events, exertional-related cardiac events, and disruption of cardiac rhythm due to blunt chest impacts (commotio cordis).

National surveillance of catastrophic sports-related injuries conducted by the National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research over the last thirty years has facilitated the introduction of numerous sports safety interventions.

The Datalys Center is a member of the Consortium for Catastrophic Injury Monitoring in Sport, which was created to develop a stronger national active surveillance program to improve reporting and monitoring of these catastrophic sports injuries. Through this Consortium, the NCCSIR aims to track cases through a systematic data reporting system that allows for longitudinal investigation of athletes suffering from catastrophic injuries and illnesses.