Kates, Stephen L.
Hurni, Severine
Chen, Maio S.
Funding for this research was provided by:
AO Foundation, AOTrauma (N/A)
Article History
Received: 5 May 2019
First Online: 7 November 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Stephen Kates has received multiple research grants from both governmental (NIH and AHRQ) and private sources (AO Foundation and PCORI). Severine Hurni and Maio Chen declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The ethics committees (reference number) consulted were: Regionshuset, Viborg, Denmark (#1-10-72-18-13), Ethic Commission at Hospital Italiano, Buenos Aires, Agentina (#2288), Ethic Commission beider Basel, Switzerland (#EK 353/12), Conjoint Health Research Ethics Board, University of Calgary, Canada (#REB13-0179), Ethics Committee of the First Affiliated Hospital of Third Military Medical University, ChonQing, China (#Keyang-2014(8)), University of Missouri–Columbia Health Sciences Institutional Review Board, USA (#1205478), Geisinger Institutional Review Board, Danville, Pennsylvania, USA (#2014-0313), Ethics Committee University Giessen, Germany (#94/13), Zunyi Medical University Ethics Committee (no reference number), Ethics Committee of Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital, China (#2013KY064), Ethics Committee of the Hamawaki Orthopedics Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan (no reference number), Institutional Review Soard of the University of Hong Kong/ Hospital Authority Hong Kong West Cluster, Hong Kong (#UW 13-179), Ethics Committee of the Medical University Innsbruck, Austria (#UN4927), Medical Ethics Commission UZ KU Leuven/Onderzoek, Leuven, Belgium (#S57451), Ethik-Kommission der Bayerischen Landesärztekammer, Munich, Germany (#12121), Ethics Commission, University Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany (#14-102-0321), Virginia Commonwealth University IRB Panel, Richmond, VA, USA (#HM20006017), Unity Health System IRB, Rochester, NY, USA (#419), and University of Rochester Research Subjects Review Board (RSRB00043910).
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.