*Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA;
†Ohio State University;
‡Orthopaedic Associates of Michigan;
§Indiana University;
‖NYU Hospital for Joint Disease;
¶Texas Health Forth Worth;
**Dalhousie University;
††University of Oklahoma; and
‡‡Barnes-Jewish Hospital.
Reprints: Paul Tornetta III, MD, Boston Medical Center, 850 Harrison Avenue, Dowling 2 North, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA 02118 (e-mail: [email protected]).
Received Consultancy fees from Smith and Nephew, Biomet, Stryker (C.C.); Exactech (K.E.); Etex (R.K.L.); Biomet (B.H.M.); Stryker, Smith and Nephew, Biomet (W.M.R.); Grants from OMeGA, OREF, Synthes (K.E.); METRC DOD, NIH (C.B.J.); Medtronic, CIHR (R.K.L.); Synthes (B.H.M.); and AONA, COTA (W.M.R.); and Payment for lectures and others: Biomet, Etex, Synthes, Smith and Nephew, Stryker, Zimmer, and Bioventus (R.K.L.); and Synthes, Smith and Nephew (B.H.M.). The remaining authors report no conflict of interest.
Presented in part at the Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Trauma Association, October 2013, Phoenix, AZ, the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting, March 2014, New Orleans, LA, and at the Combined COA/AOA, June 2014, Montreal, Canada.
IRB approval was obtained for this study with DUA agreements from all centers.
Accepted January 14, 2015
