Survey of intensive care unit staff views on a newly introduced reusable isolation gown
Nikolaos Angelopoulos A * , Samantha Angiolella B , Paula Lyons A , Bryan Ross C and Forbes McGain D
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A Footscray ICU Western Health, Melbourne, Vic., Australia.
B Sunshine ICU Western Health, Melbourne, Vic., Australia.
C Director of Operations, Health Support Services, Western Health, Melbourne, Vic., Australia.
D Department of Intensive Care, Anaesthesia, Pain and Perioperative Medicine, Western Health, Melbourne, Vic., Australia.
* Correspondence to: Nikolaos.Angelopoulos.92@gmail.com
Australian Health Review 47(1) 131-133 https://doi.org/10.1071/AH22223
Submitted: 29 September 2022 Accepted: 29 September 2022 Published: 20 October 2022
© 2023 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing on behalf of AHHA. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY)
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