title: The National Football League: cerebral concussion, peer-review, and the oath of Hippocrates: keynote address--NFL concussion summit, Chicago 2007.
abstract: The following comments convey the assembled keynote points made at a summit called by Commissioner Roger Goodell involving all leading medical personnel in the National Football League, outside experts and players union representatives.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
authors.forename: Michael L J
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Apuzzo
mesh_terms: D001265:Athletic Injuries / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D001924:Brain Concussion / Q000209:etiology*; D005538:Football; D006625:Hippocratic Oath; D006801:Humans; D038223:Post-Concussion Syndrome / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology