About the Authors

Helen Mary Badge

Contributed equally to this work with: Helen Mary Badge, Tim Churches, Justine M. Naylor, Wei Xuan, Ian A. Harris

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

helen.badgehawke@gmail.com

Affiliations Whitlam Orthopaedic Research Centre, Liverpool, Australia, South Western Sydney Clinical School, UNSW, Liverpool, Australia, Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research, Liverpool, Australia, Australian Catholic University, North Sydney, Australia

Tim Churches

Contributed equally to this work with: Helen Mary Badge, Tim Churches, Justine M. Naylor, Wei Xuan, Ian A. Harris

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations South Western Sydney Clinical School, UNSW, Liverpool, Australia, Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research, Liverpool, Australia

Justine M. Naylor

Contributed equally to this work with: Helen Mary Badge, Tim Churches, Justine M. Naylor, Wei Xuan, Ian A. Harris

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

Affiliations Whitlam Orthopaedic Research Centre, Liverpool, Australia, South Western Sydney Clinical School, UNSW, Liverpool, Australia, Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research, Liverpool, Australia

Wei Xuan

Contributed equally to this work with: Helen Mary Badge, Tim Churches, Justine M. Naylor, Wei Xuan, Ian A. Harris

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations South Western Sydney Clinical School, UNSW, Liverpool, Australia, Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research, Liverpool, Australia

Elizabeth Armstrong

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Falls Balance and Injury Research Centre, Neuroscience Research Australia, Randwick, Australia

Leeanne Gray

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation South Western Sydney Local Health District, Liverpool, Australia

John Fletcher

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, NSW, Australia

Iain Gosbell

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research, Liverpool, Australia, Western Sydney University, Campbelltown, NSW, Australia

Christine Lin

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Sydney School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia

Ian A. Harris

Contributed equally to this work with: Helen Mary Badge, Tim Churches, Justine M. Naylor, Wei Xuan, Ian A. Harris

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

Affiliations Whitlam Orthopaedic Research Centre, Liverpool, Australia, South Western Sydney Clinical School, UNSW, Liverpool, Australia, Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research, Liverpool, Australia, South Western Sydney Local Health District, Liverpool, Australia

Competing Interests

JF is an unpaid member of the group that developed the NHMRC Guidelines for the prevention of VTE. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.