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The authors report the following potential conflicts of interest or sources of funding: This research was supported in part by an appointment to the Department of Defense (DoD) Research Participation Program administered by the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) through an interagency agreement between the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) and the DoD. ORISE is managed by ORAU under DoE contract number DE-SC0014664. Additionally, funding was provided for portions of this project through the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Department of Research Programs Graduate Medical Education Research funds (PI: W.B.R.). The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not reflect the official policy of the DoE, ORAU/ RISE Department of the Army/Navy/Air Force, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, DoD, or U.S. Government. Full ICMJE author disclosure forms are available for this article online, as supplementary material.