Potential conflicts of interest of editorial board members.

* Editorial board members who completed a disclosure for: (1) North American Spine Society national spine meeting 2013 [29]; (2) Scoliosis Research Society 48th annual meeting & course 2013 [31]; (3) Scoliosis Research Society 20th International Meeting on Advanced Spine Techniques 2013 [30]; (4) AOSpine global spine congress 2013 [33]; (5) Eurospine 2013 Annual Meeting [34], and/or (6) the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons 2012/2013 [32].† Editorial board members as published on websites of the journals, January 2013 [23–27].‡ Biomet, Zimmer, Stryker, Smith & Nephew, Medtronic, Johnson & Johnson (including the subsidiaries DePuy & Synthes) [36].Potential conflicts of interest of editorial board members.