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Nir Menachemi, Ph.D., associate professor, Florida State University College of Medicine, Tallahassee, Florida; Charles Saunders, Ph.D., assistant professor, Florida State University College of Medicine; Askar Chukmaitov, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor, Florida State University College of Medicine; Michael C. Matthews, Ph.D., assistant professor, Winthrop University College of Business Administration, Rock Hill, South Carolina; and Robert G. Brooks, M.D., M.B.A., professor and associate dean for health affairs, Florida State University College of Medicine

For more information on the concepts in this article, please contact Dr. Menachemi at nir.menachemi@med.fsu.edu.

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