Brown, Michael J. C. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0544-7448
Deakin, Angela H.
Picard, Frederic
Riches, Philip E.
Clarke, Jon V.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Bbraun Aesculap AG
Article History
Received: 14 March 2018
Accepted: 29 October 2018
First Online: 10 November 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Frederic Picard has licenses and patents with BBraun Aesculap and receives royalties from a book published with Oxford University Press. Angela Deakin was employed at the Golden Jubilee National Hospital at the time of the study. This institution received research funding from BBraun Aesculap. Jon Clarke received two grants from BBraun Aesculap to carry out the study. Michael Brown and Philip Riches declare no conflict of interest.
: The University of Strathclyde Ethics committee provided ethical approval for the part of the study investigating healthy volunteers(090957). Patients with end stage OA were recruited following ethical approval from the West of Scotland Research Ethics Committee 2 (07/S0709/07).
: All patients involved in this study provided informed consent.