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CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS
■ MORGANNE PHILLIPS, MD was a third-year Emergency Medicine and Chief Resident at Christiana Care Health System upon completion of this study, and is currently Emergency Medicine faculty at Christiana Care Health System.
■ BRIAN LEVINE, MD was the Program Director of the Emergency Medicine residency upon completion of this study and is currently the Designated Institutional Officer and Associate Chief Academic Officer at Christiana Care Health System.
■ MIA PAPAS, PhD is Corporate Director of the Value Institute at Christiana Care Health System.
■ CHRISTIAN COLETTI, MD, MHCDS is Associate Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine and practicing Emergency Medicine/Internal Medicine faculty member at Christiana Care Health System.
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