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Wendy P Chaboyer¹, Lukman Thalib, Emma L Harbeck

¹School of Nursing and Midwifery, Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, QLD, Australia; Department of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar; Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, QLD, Australia; Intensive Care Services, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital and School of Nursing, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, and Institute for Skin Integrity and Infection Prevention, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, United Kingdom; Department of Internal Medicine, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, and Burns, Trauma and Critical Care Research Centre, University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia; Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, QLD, Australia; Department of Medical-Surgical Nursing, School of Nursing, University of Saõ Paulo, Saõ Paulo, Brazil; School of Nursing and Midwifery, Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, QLD, Australia.

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