Defining the Value of Future Research to Identify the Preferred Treatment of Meniscal Tear in the Presence of Knee Osteoarthritis

• Elena Losina ,

  * E-mail: elosina@partners.org

  Affiliations Orthopaedic and Arthritis Center for Outcomes Research, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Section of Clinical Sciences, Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Elizabeth E. Dervan,

  Current address: Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

  Affiliation Orthopaedic and Arthritis Center for Outcomes Research, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• A. David Paltiel,

  Affiliation Yale School of Public Health and Yale School of Management, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Yan Dong,

  Current address: OPKO Health, Inc., Woburn, Massachusetts, United States of America

  Affiliation Orthopaedic and Arthritis Center for Outcomes Research, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• R. John Wright,

  Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Kurt P. Spindler,

  Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Garfield Heights, Ohio, United States of America

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• Lisa A. Mandl,

  Affiliations Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Morgan H. Jones,

  Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Garfield Heights, Ohio, United States of America

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• Robert G. Marx,

  Affiliations Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Clare E. Safran-Norton,

  Affiliation Department of Rehabilitation Services, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Jeffrey N. Katz

  Affiliations Orthopaedic and Arthritis Center for Outcomes Research, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Section of Clinical Sciences, Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Departments of Epidemiology and Environmental Health, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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