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1 The Center for Case Management, East Longmeadow, MA. 2 Pulmonary-Critical Care Division, Department of Medicine, Baystate Health, Springfield, MA. 3 Department of Medicine, UMass-Chan Medical School-Baystate, Springfield, MA. *See also p. 1138. Dr. Higgins received funding from Cerner (now Oracle Center); he disclosed that he served as a consultant to Cerner from 2006 to 2022 on Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) development. APACHE is mentioned in the editorial. These potential conflicts of interest have been included in the article. Dr. Higgins has served as a consultant to Cerner in the development and maintenance of the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation system for benchmarking ICU mortality results and previously developed Mortality Probability Model, version 3 using the Project Impact database.