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  • 1From the *Division of Hospital Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio; †Sections of Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas; ‡Division of Emergency Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; §Sections of Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Gastroenterology, Alberta Children's Hospital, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; ¶Departments of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine, Brown University and Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island; ‖Division of Emergency Medicine, Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego, California and Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, San Diego; **Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; ††Division of Emergency Medicine, Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, Washington; ‡‡Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California; §§Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital, and ¶¶Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri; and ‖‖Division of Infectious Disease, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio.

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