Forero, Roberto http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6031-6590
Nahidi, Shizar
De Costa, Josephine
Mohsin, Mohammed
Fitzgerald, Gerry
Gibson, Nick
McCarthy, Sally
Aboagye-Sarfo, Patrick
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Health and Medical Research Council (App 1029492)
Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (cash contribution)
Department of Health, Government of Western Australia (cash contribution)
NSW Ministry of Health (cash contribution)
Agency of Clinnical Innovation NSW (cash contribution)
Queensland Emergency Medicine Research Foundation (cash conttribution)
Article History
Received: 5 May 2017
Accepted: 6 February 2018
First Online: 17 February 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: As indicated in the background, our study received ethics approval from the respective Human Research Ethics Committees of Western Australian Department of Health (DBL.201403.07), Cancer Institute NSW (HREC/14/CIPHS/30), ACT Department of Health (ETH.3.14.054) and Queensland Health (HREC/14/QGC/30) as well as governance approval from the 16 participating hospitals. All participants received information about the project; received an invitation to participate and signed a consent form and agreed to allow an audio recording to be conducted.
: All the data used from the interviews were de-identified for the analysis. No individual details, images or recordings, were used apart from the de-identified transcription.
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