Ghomrawi, Hassan M. K.
Mancuso, Carol A.
Gonzalez Della Valle, Alejandro
Herrero, Christina
Westrich, Geoffrey H.
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R00 HD060686)
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (RFA-HS-05-14)
Article History
Received: 2 August 2015
Accepted: 7 January 2016
First Online: 22 February 2016
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: Christina Herrero, Alejandro Gonzalez Della Valle, MD and Geoffrey H. Westrich, MD have declared that they have no conflict of interest. Hassan M.K. Ghomrawi, PhD, MPH reports institutional grants from the National Institute of Child and Human Development (National Institutes of Health career development grant [R00 HD060686]) and the Agency of Health Research and Quality through a Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics grant (CERTs; Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality RFA-HS-05-14) during the conduct of the study. Carol A. Mancuso, MD reports grants from Hospital for Special Surgery, during the conduct of the study; grants from NHLBI, AHRQ, NIA—through internal Cornell award, 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.
: The study was partially funded by the generous donation of Mr. Glenn Bergenfield and The Sidney Milton and Leoma Simon Foundation.
: Parts of this work were presented at the 2013 Knee Society closed meeting.
: Disclosure forms provided by the authors are available with the online version of this article.