Abdullah, Abdullah http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9955-047X
Parent, Stefan
Miyanji, Firoz
Smit, Kevin
Murphy, Joshua
Skaggs, David
Gupta, Purnendu
Vitale, Michael
Ouellet, Jean
Saran, Neil
Cho, Robert H.
Group, Pediatric Spine Study
El-Hawary, Ron http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2172-6188
Article History
Received: 12 November 2020
Accepted: 9 March 2021
First Online: 9 April 2021
Declarations
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: Abdullah Abdullah has nothing to disclose. Stefan Parent (No PDF). Firoz Miyanji consults for Zimmer Biomet. Kevin Smit receives grant from Zimmer Biomet. Joshua Murphy consults for OrthoPediatrics, Depuy Synthes Spine and is a member of the physician advisory board. David Skaggs consults for Zimmer Biomet, orthobullets, Nuvasive, grand Rounds and Medtronic, is a board member of Growing Spine Foundation, Growing Spine Study Group, CHLA Foundation, is a member of the editorial board of Orthopedic Today, Spine Deformity, Wolter Kluwer Health, and Journal of Children's Orthopaedics, and has stocks or stock Options in Green Sun Medical, and Zipline Medical. Purnendu Gupta consults for DePuy Synthes. Michael Vitale Consults for Zimmer Biomet, Stryker, and Nuvvasive, is a board member of Pediatric Orthopedic Society of North America (POSNA), Scoliosis Research Society (SRS), Orthopedic Research and Education Foundation (OREF), and Children’s Spine Foundation (CSF). Jean Ouellet reports grants from AONA Foundation. Neil Saran has nothing to disclose. Robert H. Cho consults for DePuy Synthes, Prosidyan, NuVasive, and OrthoPediatrics. Pediatric Spine Study Group reports grants from Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America, grants from Food and Drug Administration, grants from NuVasive, grants from DePuy Synthes Spine, grants from Children’s Spine Foundation, and grants from Growing Spine Foundation. Ron El-Hawary consults for Depuy Synthes Spine, Medronic Spine, Globus Medical, Wishbone Medical, and Apifix Ltd, works in research and education with Depuy Synthes Spine, Joint Solutions and Medronic Spine, receives IP royalties from Wishbone Medical, and is a board member of the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America, Scoliosis Research Society and the Children’s Spine Study Group.
: This work is a sub-study of the Pediatric Spine Study Group Registry which was approved by the Research Ethics Board at the IWK Health Centre (#1002256) in accordance with the ethical standards outlined in the Tri-Council Policy Statement and the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments. All sites have research ethics board approval for entry of subject data into the pediatric spine study group database (formerly the children’s spine study group database and the growing spine study group data base).
: All research participants or their legal guardians provided written consent to be a part of the registry and have the data collected be used in ongoing research on scoliosis.