Understanding family-level decision-making when seeking access to acute surgical care for children: Protocol for a cross-sectional mixed methods study

• Bria Hall,

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

  Affiliation Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, Roanoke, VA, United States of America

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• Allison Tegge,

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

  Affiliation Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, Roanoke, VA, United States of America

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• Cesia Cotache Condor,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Duke Global Health Institute, Durham, NC, United States of America, Department of Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, United States of America, Duke Center for Global Surgery and Health Equity, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, United States of America

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• Marie Rhoads,

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

  Affiliation Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, Roanoke, VA, United States of America

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• Terri-Ann Wattsman,

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

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Carilion Clinic, Roanoke, VA, United States of America

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• Angelica Witcher,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, Roanoke, VA, United States of America

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• Elizabeth Creamer,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

  Affiliation School of Education, Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, VA, United States of America

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• Anna Tupetz,

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

  Affiliations Duke Global Health Institute, Durham, NC, United States of America, Department of Emergency Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, United States of America

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• Emily R. Smith,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Duke Global Health Institute, Durham, NC, United States of America, Department of Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, United States of America, Duke Center for Global Surgery and Health Equity, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, United States of America, Department of Emergency Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, United States of America

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• Mamata Reddy Tokala,

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

  Affiliation Health Analytics Research Team, Carilion Clinic, Roanoke, VA, United States of America

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• Brian Meier,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, Roanoke, VA, United States of America, Department of Emergency Medicine, Carilion Clinic, Roanoke, VA, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5848-8163

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• Henry E. Rice

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

  * E-mail: henry.rice@duke.edu

  Affiliations Duke Global Health Institute, Durham, NC, United States of America, Department of Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, United States of America, Duke Center for Global Surgery and Health Equity, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8033-6687

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