Funding for this research was provided by:
Australian Postgraduate Award (2013)
Curtin University Postgraduate Scholarship (2013)
Article History
Received: 17 December 2018
Revised: 12 February 2019
Accepted: 14 February 2019
First Online: 20 February 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: R. Rayner was a recipient of a 2013 Australian Postgraduate Award, Curtin University Postgraduate Scholarship, and a Wound Management Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) PhD stipend. The School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine, Curtin University, and the Silver Chain Group, Western Australia are participants in the Wound Management Innovation CRC. No conflict of interest exists among the authors.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.