About the Authors

Janice Christie

Contributed equally to this work with: Janice Christie, Trish A. Gray

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Janice.christie@manchester.ac.uk

Affiliation Division of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom

Trish A. Gray

Contributed equally to this work with: Janice Christie, Trish A. Gray

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom

Jo C. Dumville

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Division of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom

Nicky A. Cullum

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Division of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom, Research and Innovation Division, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

NC receives funding from the NIHR to run Cochrane Wounds, she is the coordinating editor and JD is the Joint Co-ordinating editor. NC, JD, TG and JC have authored Cochrane reviews. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.