Moussa, Mohamed E.
Lee, Yuo-yu
Westrich, Geoffrey H.
Mehta, Nabil
Lyman, Stephen
Marx, Robert G.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (#1 U18 HS16075-01)
Article History
Received: 14 April 2016
Accepted: 1 November 2016
First Online: 17 November 2016
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: Mohamed E. Moussa, MD, Yuo-yu Lee, MS, and Nabil Mehta, BSE have declared that they have no conflict of interest. Stephen Lyman, PhD reports grants from Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, during the conduct of the study; personal fees from Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery, outside the work. Geoffrey H. Westrich, MD reports personal fees and non-financial support from Exactech, personal fees from Don Joy Orthopedics and Stryker Corporation, during the conduct of the study. Robert G. Marx, MD, MSc, FRCSC reports personal fees from Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery, Springer and Demos Health, outside the work.
: All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008 (5).
: Informed consent was obtained from all patients for being included in the study.
: Disclosure forms provided by the authors are available with the online version of this article.