About the Authors

Kate Curtis

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

kate.Curtis@sydney.edu.au

Affiliations Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia, Emergency Services, Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District, Wollongong Hospital, Wollongong, NSW, Australia, Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia

Sarah Kourouche

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia

Stephen Asha

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Emergency Department, St George Hospital, Kogarah, NSW, Australia, St George Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Kogarah, NSW, Australia

Julie Considine

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Nursing and Midwifery and Centre for Quality and Patient Safety Experience in the Institute for Health Transformation, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, Australia, Centre for Quality and Patient Safety Experience–Eastern Health Partnership, Box Hill, VIC, Australia

Margaret Fry

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia, Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, NSW, Australia, Northern Sydney Local Health District, Hornsby, NSW, Australia

Sandy Middleton

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Nursing Research Institute, St Vincent’s Health Network Sydney, St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne, Fitzroy, Australia, Australian Catholic University, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Rebecca Mitchell

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences, Macquarie University, Macquarie Park, NSW, Australia

Belinda Munroe

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia, Emergency Services, Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District, Wollongong Hospital, Wollongong, NSW, Australia

Ramon Z. Shaban

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia, Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia, Division of Infectious Diseases and Sexual Health, Department of Infection Prevention and Control, Westmead Hospital and Western Sydney Local Health District, Westmead, NSW, Australia, New South Wales Biocontainment Centre, Western Sydney Local Health District and New South Wales Health, Warwick Farm, NSW, Australia

Alfa D’Amato

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology

Affiliation NSW Activity Based Funding Taskforce, NSW Ministry of Health, Sydney, Australia

Clare Skinner

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Emergency Department, Hornsby Ku-ring-ai Hospital, Hornsby, NSW, Australia

Glen Wiseman

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Emergency Services, Canterbury Hospital, Campsie, NSW, Australia

Thomas Buckley

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia

Competing Interests

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