de Souza, Julia Chequer
Vangaveti, Venkat
Biros, Erik
Mallett, Andrew J. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8752-2551
Funding for this research was provided by:
James Cook University
Article History
Received: 11 August 2024
Accepted: 21 November 2024
First Online: 7 January 2025
Declarations
:
: The authors have no competing interests to declare that are relevant to the content of this manuscript.
: The Townsville Hospital and Health Service Audit, Quality and Innovation Review panel reviewed and approved the study as a quality assurance and audit study (THHSAQUIRE1689). This approval included exemption review and approval from the Townsville Hospital and Health Service Human Research Ethics Committee.
: This article contains study with human participants. The study was performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
: A waiver of consent was granted in accordance with the Queensland Hospital and Health Boards Act (Sect. 150; 2011) and Australia’s National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research (NHMRC, 2018) Sect. 2.3.10 as the retrospective quality assurance/audit study analysed previously collected data and constituted negligible risk to participants who had already received standard-of-care.