Prevention of Infections in Cardiac Surgery (PICS)-Prevena Study – A pilot/vanguard factorial cluster cross-over RCT

• Thomas C. Scheier,

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

  Affiliation Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, ON, Canada

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• Richard Whitlock,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Department of Health Research Methodology, Evidence, and Impact, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

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• Mark Loeb,

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

  Affiliations Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Department of Health Research Methodology, Evidence, and Impact, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

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• Philip James Devereaux,

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

  Affiliations Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Department of Health Research Methodology, Evidence, and Impact, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, World Health Research Trust, Hamilton, ON, Canada

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• Andre Lamy,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Department of Surgery, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

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• Michael McGillion,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, ON, Canada

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• MacKenzie Quantz,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Schulich School for Medicine & Dentistry, London, ON, Canada

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• Ingrid Copland,

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

  Affiliation Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, ON, Canada

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• Shun-Fu Lee,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Department of Health Research Methodology, Evidence, and Impact, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

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• Dominik Mertz

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

  * E-mail: mertzd@mcmaster.ca

  Affiliations Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Department of Health Research Methodology, Evidence, and Impact, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4337-1613

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