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M.P-.M. served as a paid consultant to Becton, Dickinson and Company. The consulting work was unrelated to the research presented in this manuscript. The remaining authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose. All procedures were approved by the Columbia University Medical Center, University of Pittsburgh, and RAND Corporation Institutional Review Boards and a waiver of written informed consent was obtained.
This study was funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research (R01NR013687). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institute of Nursing Research or the National Institutes of Health. The study sponsor had no role in the design or conduct or the study; in the collection, analysis, or interpretation of the data; in the writing of the manuscript; or in the decision to submit the manuscript for publication.
