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Present affiliations: BMW: Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass; AJA: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Mass; JC: Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital University of California; APJ: Department of Neurology and Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pa; GM: Intermountain Blood and Marrow Transplant/Acute Leukemia Program, LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City, Utah; SR: Gwinnett Clinic, Lawrenceville, Ga; DPH: Emory University Division of Hospital Medicine, Atlanta, Ga.
Funding: This work was conducted with support from Harvard Catalyst, the Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center (National Center for Research Resources and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health Award UL1 TR001102), and financial contributions from Harvard University and its affiliated academic healthcare centers. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of Harvard Catalyst, Harvard University and its affiliated academic healthcare centers, or the National Institutes of Health.
Conflict of Interest: BMW was paid by the Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Medicine for his work as a research assistant on this study. EAM is supported by National Institutes of Health Grant UL1 TR001102 and is a paid Data and Safety Monitoring Board member of Acorda Therapeutics and Shire Human Genetic Therapies. GM was paid for work for the Blinatumomab Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Advisory Board in 2015.
Authorship: All authors had access to the data and played a role in writing this manuscript.
