About the Authors

Leonard Banza Ngoie

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

leonardbanza2014@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Kamuzu Central Hospital, Lilongwe, Malawi, Department of Clinical Medicine (K1), University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Eva Dybvik

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Norwegian Arthroplasty Register, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway

Geir Hallan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Kamuzu Central Hospital, Lilongwe, Malawi, Department of Clinical Medicine (K1), University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, The Norwegian Arthroplasty Register, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, The Norwegian Arthroplasty Register Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway

Jan-Erik Gjertsen

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Kamuzu Central Hospital, Lilongwe, Malawi, Department of Clinical Medicine (K1), University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, The Norwegian Arthroplasty Register Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway

Nyengo Mkandawire

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi, School of Medicine, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia

Carlos Varela

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Kamuzu Central Hospital, Lilongwe, Malawi, Department of Clinical Medicine (K1), University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi

Sven Young

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Kamuzu Central Hospital, Lilongwe, Malawi, Department of Clinical Medicine (K1), University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, The Norwegian Arthroplasty Register Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway, Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.