Oliver, William M. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8976-2260
Nicholson, Jamie A. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3640-8254
Bell, Katrina R. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4145-4909
Carter, Thomas H. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2883-371X
White, Timothy O. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6125-7112
Clement, Nicholas D. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8792-0659
Duckworth, Andrew D. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5317-1300
Simpson, A. Hamish R. W. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7793-642X
Funding for this research was provided by:
Osteosynthesis and Trauma Care Foundation
Article History
Received: 30 May 2023
Accepted: 4 September 2023
First Online: 29 September 2023
Declarations
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: WMO, JAN, KRB and THC report no conflicts of interest. TOW reports institutional research grants from Acumed and Smith & Nephew and royalties from Elsevier, all unrelated to this study. NDC is an editorial board member of The Bone & Joint Journal and Bone & Joint Research. ADD reports research grants from NIHR, OTA, and SORT-iT, institutional research grants from Stryker, Smith & Nephew and Acumed, royalties from Taylor & Francis and Elsevier, and a speaker payment from AgNovos Healthcare, all unrelated to this study. ADD is also an editorial board member of The Bone & Joint Journal, Bone & Joint Research, and Bone & Joint 360, an Associate Editor for Trials, OTAI, and JBJS Case Connector, and a member of the OTA and OTS Research Committees. AHRWS is the Editor-in-Chief of Bone & Joint Research and a member of the Research Committee of the Orthopaedic Trauma Care Foundation.
: Ethical approval was prospectively obtained for this study from South-East Scotland Research Ethics Committee (reference number 06/S1103/51).
: Informed written consent was obtained from all study participants. No patient-identifiable details were included in this manuscript and therefore explicit consent for publication was not required.