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The authors report the following potential conflicts of interest or sources of funding: K.B. reports personal fees from Arthrex, outside the submitted work. B.B. reports grants and personal fees from Smith & Nephew and personal fees from Ortomedic, outside the submitted work. E.H. reports personal fees Arthroscopy Association of North America, outside the submitted work. J.S. reports grants from Stryker-Wright, other from Exactech, Acumed, Precision OS, PSI, Elsevier, Oxford University Press, and Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery, outside the submitted work. R.A. reports other from Biorez, and grants from Don-Joy and Arthrex, outside the submitted work. G.A. reports other from ConMed Linvatec, outside the submitted work. E.C. reports personal fees from DePuy Mitek, Stryker, and Smith & Nephew, outside the submitted work. D.G.D. and L.F. report personal fees from Wright, outside the submitted work. A.L. reports personal fees from Wright, Medacta, and Arthrex, outside the submitted work. A.M. reports grants and personal fees from Arthrex, outside the submitted work. G.M. reports personal fees and nonfinancial support from Arthrex, grants and nonfinancial support from FGP, grants and nonfinancial support from GreenBone, and personal fees from Stryker, outside the submitted work. P. Moroder reports grants and personal fees from Arthrex, personal fees from DePuy Synthes Mitek Sportsmedicine, outside the submitted work. C.R. reports personal fees from LIMA and Arthrex, outside the submitted work. B.W. reports personal fees from ConMed Linvatec, outside the submitted work. P. Millett reports grants and personal fees from Arthrex, personal fees from Medbridge and Springer Publishing, and other from GameReady, VuMedi, Smith & Nephew, Arthrex, Siemens, and Ossur, outside the submitted work. S.S. reports personal fees from Arthrex, Medartis AG, and KLS Martin Group, outside the submitted work. Full ICMJE author disclosure forms are available for this article online, as supplementary material.
