Letter to the Editor in response to Drs. Safiri and Ayubi

Affiliations

• ¹ Dept. of Orthopaedic Surgery, Louisiana State University, New Orleans, LA, USA. Electronic address: rzura@lsuhsc.edu.
• ² Braid-Forbes Health Research, Silver Spring, MD, USA. Electronic address: mjbraidforbes@braidforbes.com.
• ³ Dept. of Orthopedic Surgery, University of South Carolina, Greenville, SC, USA. Electronic address: KJeray@ghs.org.
• ⁴ Dept. of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Electronic address: Samir.Mehta@uphs.upenn.edu.
• ⁵ Dept. of Orthopaedic Surgery, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, NY, USA. Electronic address: Thomas.Einhorn@nyumc.org.
• ⁶ Dept. of Orthopaedic Surgery, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA. Electronic address: watsonjt@slu.edu.
• ⁷ Dept. of Orthopaedic Surgery, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. Electronic address: gregory.della.rocca@duke.edu.
• ⁸ School of Business and Economics, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, USA. Electronic address: forbes@cua.edu.
• ⁹ Dept. of Orthopaedic Surgery, Louisiana State University, New Orleans, LA, USA; Medical Affairs, Bioventus LLC, 4721 Emperor Blvd., Suite 100, 27703 Durham, NC, USA. Electronic address: Grant.Steen@bioventusglobal.com.