Davidson, Amit
Blum, Shlomo
Harats, Elad
Kachko, Erick
Essa, Ahmad
Efraty, Ram
Peyser, Amos
Giannoudis, Peter V.
Article History
Received: 13 April 2022
Accepted: 22 April 2022
First Online: 11 May 2022
Declarations
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: This research study was conducted retrospectively from data obtained for clinical purposes. We consulted extensively with the IRB of SZMC and Asaf Harofeh medical centre who determined that our study did not need ethical approval. An IRB official waiver of ethical approval was granted from the IRB of SZMC, Asaf Harofeh medical centres (013–22-SZMC, ASF-0316–20).
: This is a retrospective anonymised data collecting data on patients treated for a common injury; the identity of the patients cannot be revealed. The ethic committee of the participating canters exempt this study form the need to obtain consent to participate.
: In this study, there is an X-ray image of one of the patients from the study cohort. This image purpose is to describe and visualise the paper subject. The X ray image is anonymised, and there is no concerns that the identity of this patient would be revealed. Following this journal instructions, there is no need in this case to perform informed consent from this specific patient.
: The authors declare no competing interests.