Kayani, Babar http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6611-3989
Konan, Sujith
Tahmassebi, Jenni
Oussedik, Sam
Moriarty, Peter D.
Haddad, Fares S.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Stryker (27075)
Article History
Received: 18 December 2019
Accepted: 30 January 2020
First Online: 18 February 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study has been reviewed and approved for patient recruitment by the London-Surrey Research Ethics Committee, United Kingdom (reference 18/LO/0783). Written informed consent will be obtained from participants during recruitment on site and prior to data collection. Consent to use the data collected for scientific reporting and publication will also be obtained at the same time as the consent to participate.
: The findings of this research will be published in peer-reviewed journals. All study patients will provide informed consent for publication of anonymised patient data and study findings. Authorship will reflect the amount of time spent designing the study, collating the data, analysing the results, and writing the manuscript.
: FSH reports board membership of <i>The Bone and Joint Journal</i> and the <i>Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons</i>, has acted as a consultant for Smith & Nephew, Corin, MatOrtho and Stryker, has received payment for lectures including service on speakers’ bureaus for Smith & Nephew and Stryker, and has received royalties paid by Smith & Nephew, MatOrtho, Corin and Stryker, all outside the submitted work. SK reports consultancy, payment for lectures including service on speakers’ bureaus, payment for development of education presentations and travel/accommodations/meeting expenses for Smith & Nephew and AO, all outside the submitted work. The remaining authors declare no competing interests.