*Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI

†Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN

‡Department of Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

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Presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, September 16, 2020.

Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institute of General Medical Science of the National Institutes of Health under award number K23GM084427. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.

Author’s Contributions: BZ designed the original study and participated in data collection. MN, SR, SS, LT, PM, and BZ all participated in the design of the current analysis of financial hardship trajectories. The analysis was performed by NM and MV. MN, SR, SS, LT, BZ and PM interpreted the data and participated in drafting the manuscript. All authors contributed to and reviewed the final manuscript.

The authors report no conflicts of interest.

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