Reducing levels of medical device contamination through package redesign and opening technique

• Paula Perez ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Paula Perez, Tamara Reid Bush, Laura Bix

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Packaging, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States of America

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• Tamara Reid Bush ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Paula Perez, Tamara Reid Bush, Laura Bix

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Mechanical Engineering Dept., Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States of America

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• Hyokyoung G. Hong ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Statistics and Probability, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States of America

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• Wu Pan ,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Mechanical Engineering Dept., Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States of America

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• Larissa Miller,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Advanced Chronic Nursing Care, Nursing Program, Lansing Community College, Lansing, MI, United States of America

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• Laura Bix

  Contributed equally to this work with: Paula Perez, Tamara Reid Bush, Laura Bix

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: bixlaura@msu.edu

  Affiliation School of Packaging, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5779-7474

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