Tunneled peripherally inserted central catheter versus non-tunneled and its effects in clinical outcomes: A multicenter randomized clinical trial protocol

• Rodrigo do Nascimento Ceratti ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rodrigo do Nascimento Ceratti, Knut Taxbro, Vineet Chopra, Leandro Augusto Hansel, Carolina Geske Salini, Ivana Duarte Brum, Marina Junges, Arlene Gonçalves dos Santos, Eneida Rejane Rabelo-Silva

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Vascular Access Program, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

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• Knut Taxbro ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rodrigo do Nascimento Ceratti, Knut Taxbro, Vineet Chopra, Leandro Augusto Hansel, Carolina Geske Salini, Ivana Duarte Brum, Marina Junges, Arlene Gonçalves dos Santos, Eneida Rejane Rabelo-Silva

  Roles Writing – review & editing, Validation

  Affiliations Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

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• Vineet Chopra ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rodrigo do Nascimento Ceratti, Knut Taxbro, Vineet Chopra, Leandro Augusto Hansel, Carolina Geske Salini, Ivana Duarte Brum, Marina Junges, Arlene Gonçalves dos Santos, Eneida Rejane Rabelo-Silva

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

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• Leandro Augusto Hansel ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rodrigo do Nascimento Ceratti, Knut Taxbro, Vineet Chopra, Leandro Augusto Hansel, Carolina Geske Salini, Ivana Duarte Brum, Marina Junges, Arlene Gonçalves dos Santos, Eneida Rejane Rabelo-Silva

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Vascular Access Program, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

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• Carolina Geske Salini ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rodrigo do Nascimento Ceratti, Knut Taxbro, Vineet Chopra, Leandro Augusto Hansel, Carolina Geske Salini, Ivana Duarte Brum, Marina Junges, Arlene Gonçalves dos Santos, Eneida Rejane Rabelo-Silva

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Vascular Access Program, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

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• Ivana Duarte Brum ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rodrigo do Nascimento Ceratti, Knut Taxbro, Vineet Chopra, Leandro Augusto Hansel, Carolina Geske Salini, Ivana Duarte Brum, Marina Junges, Arlene Gonçalves dos Santos, Eneida Rejane Rabelo-Silva

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Vascular Access Program, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

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• Marina Junges ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rodrigo do Nascimento Ceratti, Knut Taxbro, Vineet Chopra, Leandro Augusto Hansel, Carolina Geske Salini, Ivana Duarte Brum, Marina Junges, Arlene Gonçalves dos Santos, Eneida Rejane Rabelo-Silva

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Vascular Access Program, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

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• Arlene Gonçalves dos Santos ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rodrigo do Nascimento Ceratti, Knut Taxbro, Vineet Chopra, Leandro Augusto Hansel, Carolina Geske Salini, Ivana Duarte Brum, Marina Junges, Arlene Gonçalves dos Santos, Eneida Rejane Rabelo-Silva

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Vascular Access Program, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

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• Eneida Rejane Rabelo-Silva

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rodrigo do Nascimento Ceratti, Knut Taxbro, Vineet Chopra, Leandro Augusto Hansel, Carolina Geske Salini, Ivana Duarte Brum, Marina Junges, Arlene Gonçalves dos Santos, Eneida Rejane Rabelo-Silva

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing, Conceptualization

  * E-mail: eneidarabelo@gmail.com

  Affiliations Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Ryhov County Hospital, Jönköping, Sweden

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4374-4419

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