Kahlenberg, Cynthia A.
Nwachukwu, Benedict U.
McLawhorn, Alexander S.
Cross, Michael B.
Cornell, Charles N.
Padgett, Douglas E.
Article History
Received: 1 October 2017
Accepted: 6 April 2018
First Online: 5 June 2018
Compliance with Ethical Standards
: Investigation was performed at the Hospital for Special Surgery.
: Cynthia A. Kahlenberg, MD, and Benedict U. Nwachukwu, MD, MBA, declare that they have no conflicts of interest. Alexander S. McLawhorn, MD, MBA, reports receiving personal fees from Intellijoint and from Johnson & Johnson, as well as holding board or committee membership with American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons and editorial board membership with American Journal of Orthopedics and HSS Journal, outside the submitted work. Charles N. Cornell, MD, reports receiving personal fees from Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research and from HSS Journal, as well as governing or editorial board membership with Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, HSS Journal, Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, and Springer, outside the submitted work; he also recused himself from the peer review of this article. Michael B. Cross, MD, reports receiving personal fees from Acelity, Acelity Surgical Advisory Board, Exactech, Intellijoint, Journal of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Link Orthopaedics, Smith & Nephew, Theravance Biopharma, and Zimmer, as well as holding editorial or governing board membership with Bone and Joint Journal 360, Techniques in Orthopaedics, and Journal of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, outside the submitted work. Douglas E. Padgett, MD, reports receiving personal fees from DJ Orthopedics and from PixarBio and holding board or committee membership with the American Joint Replacement Registry, the Journal of Arthroplasty, and the Hip Society, outside the submitted 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 2013.
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