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Sarah J Beesley¹, Ramona O Hopkins, Julianne Holt-Lunstad

¹Center for Humanizing Critical Care, Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, UT, and Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT; Center for Humanizing Critical Care, Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, UT, Psychology and Neuroscience Center, Department of Psychology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, and Pulmonary Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Intermountain Medical Center, Murray, UT; Psychology and Neuroscience Center, Department of Psychology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT; Center for Humanizing Critical Care, Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, UT, and Pulmonary Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Intermountain Medical Center, Murray, UT; Center for Humanizing Critical Care, Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, UT, Geriatrics Division, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, and Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; Center for Humanizing Critical Care, Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, UT, and Homer Warner Center, Medical Informatics, Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, UT; Center for Humanizing Critical Care, Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, UT, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, and Pulmonary Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Intermountain Medical Center, Murray, UT; Center for Humanizing Critical Care, Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, UT, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, Pulmonary Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Intermountain Medical Center, Murray, UT, and Pediatric Critical Care, Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.

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