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TRACK-TBI STUDY DESCRIPTION. The TRACK-TBI study will directly impact public health by creating a Dataset of integrated clinical, imaging, proteomic, genomic, and outcome biomarkers, which will permit more precise TBI diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, and which will accelerate the validation and regulatory readiness of candidate clinical outcome assessments (COAs), biomarkers, and devices. This research will: 1) permit more accurate disease/condition diagnosis, 2) identify patient subpopulations likely to benefit from therapy/intervention, and 3) provide refined outcome assessments to confirm efficacy. Detailed data from subjects across the TBI injury spectrum, along with CT/MRI imaging, blood biospecimens, and outcomes measures, will be curated and analyzed, permitting the identification/validation of COAs and biomarkers, and identification of structural abnormalities that may be predictive of outcomes, making strides toward a new taxonomy for TBI. The knowledge network of databases and imaging and biospecimen repositories will create a high quality, legacy database for current and future generations of international researchers.
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