aUniversity of Vermont Medical Center, Burlington, VT;
bDepartment of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada;
cDivision of Orthopaedic Surgery, Department of Surgery, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada;
dDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; and
eDepartment of Surgery, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada.
Reprints: Patrick C. Schottel, MD, Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Robert T Stafford Hall, 95 Carrigan Drive, Burlington, VT 05405 (e-mail: [email protected]).
The FAITH study was supported by research grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (MOP-106630 and MCT-87771), National Institutes of Health (1R01AR055267-01A1), Stichting NutsOhra (SNO-T-0602-43), the Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development (80-82310-97-11032), and Physicians' Services Incorporated. M. Bhandari was also funded, in part, through the Early Research Award Program that provided funding for the FAITH study and by a Canada Research Chair in Musculoskeletal Trauma that is unrelated to the FAITH study (McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada). Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number 1R01AR055267-01A1. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. Research reported in this publication was also supported by The County Durham and Tees Valley Comprehensive Local Research Network that operates as part of the National Institute for Health Research Comprehensive Clinical Research Network in England. The funding sources had no role in design or conduct of the FAITH study; the collection, management, analysis, or interpretation of the data; or the preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript.
The authors report no conflict of interest.
Presented in part at the Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Trauma Association, September 25–28, 2019, Denver, CO.
A list of FAITH Investigators can be found in Appendix 1 at the end of the article text.
