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Article History

Received: 1 November 2022

Accepted: 8 December 2022

First Online: 31 January 2023

Declarations

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: The trial has ethics approval from the Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC/2019/QGC/51088) (via the National Mutual Acceptance Scheme that allows for the acceptance of a single ethics review by multiple public health organisations for most human research) and the Griffith University Human Research Ethics Committee (GU Ref No: 2019/685). The trial is registered with the Australia and New Zealand Clinical Trial Registry () and has Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal for the recruitment of participants who may have impaired decision-making (e.g. cognitively impaired), with consent obtained from their legal guardian/person responsible (i.e. proxy). An overarching Medicine Australia’s Clinical Trial Research Agreement is coordinated by a Research Contracts Officer (RCO), Office for Research, Griffith University. Site-specific assessments (SSA) are in place for the Gold Cost Hospital and Health Services (for the Gold Coast University Hospital), Metro South Hospital and Health Services (for the Princess Alexandra Hospital), and Metro North Hospital and Health Services (for the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital). Informed consent is obtained for all patient participants in the clinical trial and patient participants, nursing staff, and research personnel in the process evaluation.

: Not applicable as there are no identifying images or other personal clinical details presented. Informed consent materials are available via the corresponding author.

: The authors declare that they have no competing interests. Dressings used in the trial were purchased using trial funds.