,
Maziad, Ali M. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2657-3507
Adogwa, Owoicho
Duah, Henry Ofori http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4842-6006
Yankey, Kwadwo Poku
Owusu, Derrick Nyantakyi
Sackeyfio, Arthur
Owiredu, Mabel Adobea
Wilps, Tyler
Ofori-Amankwah, Gerhard
Coleman, Franklin
Akoto, Harry
Wulff, Irene
Boachie-Adjei, Oheneba http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6100-7770
Funding for this research was provided by:
K2M (Grant No: K2M/FC/060216)
Article History
Received: 1 May 2020
Accepted: 18 November 2020
First Online: 5 January 2021
Compliance with ethical standards
:
: Dr. Boachie-Adjei reports grants, personal fees and other from K2M, personal fees and other from WEIGAO, outside the submitted work. For the remaining authors, none were declared.
: The study used secondary data from the FOCOS spine registry database approved by the institutional review board (IRB) of the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR), College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Legon (Study Protocol Number 015/14-15).