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Authors
Ong, Kevin L. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0893-0993
Niazi, Faizan
Lau, Edmund
Mont, Michael A.
Concoff, Andrew
Shaw, Peter
Kurtz, Steven M.
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ferring Pharmaceuticals
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Article History
Received: 22 May 2020
Accepted: 30 July 2020
First Online: 6 August 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Not applicable as this study utilized a publicly available de-identified administrative claims data.
: Not applicable
: KLO is an employee and shareholder of Exponent, a scientific and engineering consulting firm. Exponent has been paid fees for KLO’s consulting services on behalf of such companies and suppliers (Medtronic, Stryker Orthopaedics, Sanofi, Ferring Pharmaceuticals, Paradigm Spine, Pacira Pharmaceuticals, St. Jude Medical, Relievant Medsystems, Zimmer Biomet, Joerns Healthcare, SpineFrontier, Ethicon, DJO, Ossur, Karl Storz Endoscopy-America).EL is an employee and shareholder of Exponent, a scientific and engineering consulting firm. Exponent has been paid fees for KLO’s consulting services on behalf of such companies and suppliers (Medtronic, Stryker Orthopaedics, Sanofi, Ferring Pharmaceuticals, Paradigm Spine, Pacira Pharmaceuticals, Relievant Medsystems).SMK is an employee and shareholder of Exponent, a scientific and engineering consulting firm. Exponent has been paid fees for SMK’s consulting services on behalf of such companies and suppliers (Stryker, Zimmer Biomet, Invibio, Stelkast, Wright Medical Technology, Ceramtec, Celanese, Simplify Medical, Formae, and Ferring Pharmaceuticals).MAM reports personal fees from CyMedica, personal fees from Flexion Therapeutics, personal fees from DJ Orthopaedics, personal fees from Johnson and Johnson, personal fees from Ongoing Care Solutions, personal fees from Orthosensor, personal fees from Pacira, personal fees from Peerwell, personal fees from Performance Dynamics, personal fees from Pfizer, personal fees from Stryker, personal fees from Skye Biologics, personal fees from TissueGene, and non-financial support from US Medical Innovations, outside the submitted work.AC reports other from Ferring Pharmaceuticals and other from Flexion Therapeutics, outside the submitted work.PS (at time of study) and FN: employees of Ferring Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
