*Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN;
†SPRINT Methods Center, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada;
‡Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Health Sciences Centre, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada;
§St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada;
‖Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Minneapolis, MN;
¶London Health Sciences Centre, London, Ontario, Canada; and
**Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA.
Reprints: Carol Alice Lin, MD, MA, Hennepin County Medical Center, 701 Park Avenue, G.200, Minneapolis, MN 55415 (e-mail: [email protected]).
Supported by Research Grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research #MCT-38140 [PI: G. Guyatt], National Institutes of Health NIAMS-072; R01 AR48529 [PI: M. Swiontkowski], Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation [PI: P. Tornetta III], Orthopaedic Trauma Association [PI: M. Bhandari]. Smaller site-specific grants were also obtained from Hamilton Health Sciences Research Grant [PI: M. Bhandari], Zimmer [PI: M. Bhandari], and the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation [PI: C. Lin].
Presented in part at the Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Trauma Association, October 11, 2013, Phoenix, AZ.
The authors report no conflict of interest.
The Writing Committee included Mohit Bhandari, MD, MSc, FRCSC; Paul Tornetta III, MD; Emil H. Schemitsch, MD; Marc Swiontkowski, MD; David Sanders, MD; Gordon Guyatt, MD; and Stephen D. Walter, PhD.
SPRINT investigators are listed in the Appendix.
Accepted January 04, 2016
