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Published on: October 15, 2019
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Bernadette Capili1, Joyce K Anastasi
1Bernadette Capili is director of the Heilbrunn Family Center for Research Nursing at Rockefeller University, New York City. Joyce K. Anastasi is the Independence Foundation Professor of Nursing at the New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing, New York City. This manuscript was supported in part by grant No. UL1TR001866 from the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program. Contact author: Bernadette Capili, bcapili@rockefeller.edu . The authors have disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise. A podcast with the authors is available at www.ajnonline.com .
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