About the Authors

Daphne Broadhurst

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

daphne@infusionexcellence.com

Affiliations Alliance for Vascular Access Teaching and Research (AVATAR) group, Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Queensland, Australia, Infusion Excellence Consulting, Ottawa, Canada

Marie Cooke

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Alliance for Vascular Access Teaching and Research (AVATAR) group, Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Queensland, Australia, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Nathan Campus, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia

Deepa Sriram

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Alliance for Vascular Access Teaching and Research (AVATAR) group, Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Queensland, Australia

Brenda Gray

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

Affiliation Clinical Pharmacy Partners, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

DB reports personal and consulting fees (i.e., travel and honoraria) and non-financial support from 3M (including research grant in unrelated field), Angiodynamics, CardioMed Medical Supplies, Covalon, Fresenius, and Excelsior Medical; DB’s former employer, Medical Pharmacies, provides infusion services; however, DB affirms research was conducted independent of her employer’s services/products and of her current consulting business; MC reports Griffith University has received unrestricted investigator initiated research or educational grants on MC’s behalf from product manufacturers: Baxter; Becton, Dickinson and Company; Centurion Medical Products and Entrotech Lifesciences, unrelated to this research. DS reports no conflicts. BG reports personal and consulting fees (i.e., consultancy travel and honoraria) from Nutrishare and Covalon. BG affirms no relationships presenting competing interests or influences. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.