The following authors and editors reported that they have a relationship that, in the context of their contributions to this supplement, could be perceived as a potential conflict of interest:

• Wael K. Barsoum, MD, has received grant support from and is a consultant to the Stryker corporation and has received financial support from the Exactech corporation for device/instrument design.
  
• Bipan Chand, MD, is a consultant to the Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Gore, and Sanofi-Aventis corporations.
  
• Steven M. Gordon, MD, has received grant support from and is a consultant to the 3M corporation.
  
• Byron J. Hoogwerf, MD, has received grants from the Amylin and Lilly corporations; serves as a consultant to the Takeda and Pfizer corporations; and serves on the speakers' bureaus of the Merck, Schering-Plough, Pfizer, Lilly, Amylin, AstraZeneca, and Takeda corporations.
  
• Amir K. Jaffer, MD, is a consultant to the Sanofi-Aventis and AstraZeneca corporations, receives research and grant support from AstraZeneca, and is on the Sanofi-Aventis speakers' bureau.
  
• Franklin A. Michota, Jr., MD, has received grants from the Sanofi-Aventis and Bacchus Vascular corporations and serves as a consultant to the Sanofi-Aventis, Bacchus Vascular, and GlaxoSmithKline corporations.
  
• Michael F. Roizen, MD, owns stock in and earns book royalties from RealAge Inc.
  
• Philip Schauer, MD, has received grant support from the US Surgical, Stryker, Ethicon, Inamed, Gore, and Baxter corporations.
  
• Martin J. Schreiber, Jr., MD, has received grant support from the Amgen corporation, is a consultant to the Johnson & Johnson corporation, and is on the speakers' bureaus of the Baxter and Johnson & Johnson corporations.
  
  

The following authors reported that they have no financial relationships that could be perceived as a potential conflict of interest in the context of their articles for this supplement:

• Andrew D. Auerbach, MD, MPH
  
• Raymond G. Borkowski, MD
  
• Steven L. Cohn, MD, FACP
  
• David Gugliotti, MD
• Christopher J. Hebert, MD
  
• Robert Helfand, MD
  
• Ali Jahan, MD
  
• Viktor Krebs, MD
  
• Walter G. Maurer, MD
  
• Robert M. Palmer, MD
  
• Brian M. Parker, MD
  
• James C. Pile, MD
  
• Curtis M. Rimmerman, MD, MBA
  
• R. Michael Ritchey, MD
  
• Wael Saber, MD
  
• Douglas L. Seidner, MD
  
• Gerald W. Smetana, MD
  
• Karen Steckner, MD
  
• Christopher Whinney, MD
  

   

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