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  1. Quality improvement collaboratives are a common approach to bridging the quality-of-care gap, but little is known about implementation in low-income settings. Implementers rarely consider mechanisms of change ...

    Authors: F Procureur, AS Estifanos, DW Keraga, AK Kiflie Alemayehu, NW Hailemariam, J Schellenberg, H Magge and Z Hill
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:381
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  2. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the fastest increasing cause of cancer death in Australia. A recent Australian consensus guidelines recommended HCC surveillance for cirrhotic patients and non-cirrhotic chron...

    Authors: Anh Le Tuan Nguyen, Lei Si, John S Lubel, Nicholas Shackel, Kwang Chien Yee, Mark Wilson, Jane Bradshaw, Kerry Hardy, Andrew John Palmer, Christopher Leigh Blizzard and Barbara de Graaff
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:378
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  3. Case management is one of the most frequently performed interventions to mitigate the negative effects of high healthcare use on patients, primary care providers and the healthcare system. Reviews have address...

    Authors: Catherine Hudon, Mathieu Bisson, Maud-Christine Chouinard, Alannah Delahunty-Pike, Mireille Lambert, Dana Howse, Charlotte Schwarz, Olivier Dumont-Samson, Kris Aubrey-Bassler, Fred Burge, Shelley Doucet, Vivian R. Ramsden, Alison Luke, Marilyn Macdonald, André Gaudreau, Judy Porter…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:377
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  4. The coronavirus pandemic has had a profound impact on organization and delivery of care. The challenges faced by healthcare organizations in dealing with the pandemic have intensified interest in the concept o...

    Authors: Agnieszka Ignatowicz, Carolyn Tarrant, Russell Mannion, Dena El-Sawy, Simon Conroy and Daniel Lasserson
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:376
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:731

  5. Postpartum home-based midwifery care is covered by basic health insurance in Switzerland for all families with newborns but must be self-organized. To ensure access for all, Familystart, a network of self-empl...

    Authors: Bettina Schwind, Elisabeth Zemp, Kristen Jafflin, Anna Späth, Monika Barth, Karen Maigetter, Sonja Merten and Elisabeth Kurth
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:375
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  6. The National Health Service (NHS) Digital Diabetes Prevention Programme (DDPP) is a behaviour change programme for adults in England who are at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Four independent provide...

    Authors: Lisa M Miles, Rhiannon E Hawkes and David P French
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:373
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  7. During 2020–21, the United States used a multifaceted approach to control SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) and reduce mortality and morbidity. This included non-medical interventions (NMIs), aggressive vaccine developmen...

    Authors: Adam J. Atherly and Eline M. van den Broek-Altenburg
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:372
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  8. Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases (CNCDs) has become a major cause of mortality and disability globally. We explored the coping strategies adopted by CNCD patients and the roles of caregivers in the management...

    Authors: Robert Kokou Dowou, Hubert Amu, Farrukh Ishaque Saah, Lordina Ewurabena Arthur, Priscilla Aku Nuna Dotse and Luchuo Engelbert Bain
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:371
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  9. Emergency Departments (EDs) have become critical ‘touchpoints’ for the identification and early engagement of patients at risk of overdose or who have an opioid use disorder (OUD). Our objectives were to exami...

    Authors: Alexandra B. Collins, Janette Baird, Evelyn Nimaja, Yokabed Ashenafi, Melissa A. Clark and Francesca L. Beaudoin
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:370
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  10. With its digital health application (DiGA)-system, Germany is considered one of Europe's pioneers in the field of evidence-based digital health. Incorporating DiGA into standard medical care must be based on e...

    Authors: Melanie Mäder, Patrick Timpel, Tonio Schönfelder, Carsta Militzer-Horstmann, Sandy Scheibe, Ria Heinrich and Dennis Häckl
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:369
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  11. Patients’ views and experiences in healthcare institutions provide a means of assessing the quality of services patients receive from healthcare workers (HCWs). However, the views of patients on the health pro...

    Authors: Herbert I. Melariri, Chester Kalinda and Moses J. Chimbari
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:368
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  12. Overprescribing of antibiotics is a major concern as it contributes to antimicrobial resistance. Research has found highly variable antibiotic prescribing in (UK) primary care, and to support more effective st...

    Authors: Ruth Hurley, Francine Jury, Tjeerd P. van Staa, Victoria Palin and Christopher J. Armitage
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:367
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  13. Turnover intention among nurses has risen in an alarming rate since the onset of the pandemic. There are various underlying factors to turnover intention. The present study aims to determine the effect of a nu...

    Authors: Seyed mahdi mousavi, Saeid Yazdanirad, Mahsa Jahadi naeini, Amirhossien khoshakhlagh and Mojtaba Haghighat
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:366
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  15. Prescription opioids remain an important contributor to the United States opioid crisis and to the development of opioid use disorder for opioid-naïve individuals. Recent legislative actions, such as the imple...

    Authors: Jenna R. Adalbert, Amit Syal, Karan Varshney, Brandon George, Jeffrey Hom and Asif M. Ilyas
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:364
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  16. Disruptions in essential health services during the COVID-19 pandemic have been reported in several countries. Yet, patterns in health service disruption according to country responses remain unclear. In this ...

    Authors: Tarylee Reddy, Neena R. Kapoor, Shogo Kubota, Svetlana V Doubova, Daisuke Asai, Damen Haile Mariam, Wondimu Ayele, Anagaw Derseh Mebratie, Roody Thermidor, Jaime C. Sapag, Paula Bedregal, Álvaro Passi-Solar, Georgiana Gordon-Strachan, Mahesh Dulal, Dominic Dormenyo Gadeka, Suresh Mehata…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:363
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  17. Integrated care involves good coordination, networking, and communication within health care services and externally between providers and patients or informal caregivers. It affects the quality of services, i...

    Authors: Nataša Stojnić, Zalika Klemenc-Ketiš, Majda Mori Lukančič, Črt Zavrnik and Antonija Poplas Susič
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:362
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  18. This study aims to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of immunosuppressive therapy for patients with progressive idiopathic membranous nephropathy (IMN) from the Chinese healthcare system perspective.

    Authors: Wanyi Xu, Zhiqi Zhang, Dandan Li, Wendi Dai, Chen Pan, Mingxing Guo, Ying Zhao and Xiangli Cui
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:361
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  19. Viral haemorrhagic fevers (VHF) cause significant economic and public health impact in Sub-Saharan Africa. Community knowledge, awareness and practices regarding such outbreaks play a pivotal role in their man...

    Authors: Sima Rugarabamu, Calvin Sindato, Susan F. Rumisha, Gaspary O. Mwanyika, Gerald Misinzo, Hee Young Lim and Leonard E. G. Mboera
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:360
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  20. Childhood obesity is a chronic disease with negative physical and psychosocial health consequences. To manage childhood overweight and obesity, integrated care as part of an integrated approach is needed. To r...

    Authors: J. Halberstadt, L. W. Koetsier, M. Sijben, J. Stroo, M. van der Velde, E. G. A. H. van Mil and J. C. Seidell
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:359
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  21. Care counseling is an important psychosocial intervention for people with care needs and their relatives and can contribute to maintaining and/or improving a patient’s quality of life and reducing the burden o...

    Authors: Mike Rommerskirch-Manietta, Christina Manietta, Daniel Purwins and Martina Roes
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:358
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  22. Using Andersen’s model of health care seeking behavior, we examined the predisposing, enabling, and need factors associated with mental health service use (MHSU) during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic ...

    Authors: Helen-Maria Vasiliadis, Jessica Spagnolo, Marie-Josée Fleury, Jean-Philippe Gouin, Pasquale Roberge, Mary Bartram, Sébastien Grenier, Grace Shen-Tu, Jennifer E. Vena and JianLi Wang
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:357
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  23. Jazan region in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has been extensively studied regarding access to dental care services, but there is currently no specific study on the distribution of public (primary healthca...

    Authors: Mosa Ali Shubayr, Estie Kruger, Muhammad Mansoor Majeed, Afrah H Hattan, Shoaa Ahmed Jearan and Marc Tennant
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:356
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  24. Health systems are complex, consisting of multiple interacting structures and actors whose effective coordination is paramount to enhancing health system goals. Health sector coordination is a potential source...

    Authors: Lizah Nyawira, Rebecca G Njuguna, Benjamin Tsofa, Anita Musiega, Joshua Munywoki, Kara Hanson, Andrew Mulwa, Sassy Molyneux, Isabel Maina, Charles Normand, Julie Jemutai and Edwine Barasa
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:355
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  25. Culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) mothers with young children with limited English proficiency (LEP) encounter multiple barriers in accessing and engaging with primary healthcare services. The aim o...

    Authors: Mehrnoush Bonakdar Tehrani, Kelly Baird, Suza Trajkovski and Lynn Kemp
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:354
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  26. The objective of this study was to assess the feasibility and acceptability of institutionalizing Health Technology Assessment (HTA) in Malawi.

    Authors: Joseph Mfutso-Bengo, Faless Jeremiah, Florence Kasende-Chinguwo, Wingston Ng’ambi, Nthanda Nkungula, Isabel Kazanga-Chiumia, Mercy Juma, Marlen Chawani, Jobiba Chinkhumba, Pakwanja Twea, Emily Chirwa, Kate Langwe, Gerald Manthalu, Lucky Gift Ngwira, Dominic Nkhoma, Tim Colbourn…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:353
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  27. The prevention of type 2 diabetes (T2DM) is a major concern for health services around the world. The English NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme (NHS-DPP) offers a group face-to-face behaviour change interventi...

    Authors: David Reeves, Adrine Ablitt Woodham, David French, Peter Bower, Fiona Holland, Evangelos Kontopantelis and Sarah Cotterill
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:352
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  29. Workplace violence is widespread, but studies on workplace violence against health professions in outpatient settings are sparse. We aimed to examine, for the first time, the prevalence of workplace violence a...

    Authors: Viola Mambrey, Stefanie Ritz-Timme and Adrian Loerbroks
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:350
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  30. As health systems struggle to tackle the spread of Covid-19, resilience becomes an especially relevant attribute and research topic. More than strength or preparedness, to perform resiliently to emerging shock...

    Authors: Paulo Victor Rodrigues de Carvalho, Hugo Bellas, Jaqueline Viana, Paula de Castro Nunes, Rodrigo Arcuri, Valéria da Silva Fonseca, Ana Paula Morgado Carneiro and Alessandro Jatobá
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:349
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  31. Few studies have examined the mental health needs of African children and teenagers. Based on this gap, this scoping review aims to identify barriers to mental health services, treatments and services sought, ...

    Authors: Sabine Saade, Annick Parent-Lamarche, Tatiana Khalaf, Sara Makke and Alexander Legg
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:348
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  32. Guideline recommendations do not necessarily translate into changes in clinical practice behaviour or better patient outcomes.

    Authors: Ana-Mihaela Bora, Vanessa Piechotta, Nina Kreuzberger, Ina Monsef, Andreas Wender, Markus Follmann, Monika Nothacker and Nicole Skoetz
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:347
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  33. Disruptions to healthcare services during the COVID-19 pandemic are well-recognised problems. However, a dearth of research exists on disabled people’s experiences with accessing these services. A scoping revi...

    Authors: Karen McBride-Henry, Solmaz Nazari Orakani, Gretchen Good, Michael Roguski and Tara N. Officer
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:346
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  34. The concept of value-based healthcare is being used worldwide to improve healthcare. The Intervention Selection Toolbox was developed to bridge the gap of value-based healthcare, between insights in outcomes a...

    Authors: Bo Smalbroek, Joanna Vijverberg, Milad Fahim, Lea Dijksman, Douwe Biesma, Anke Smits, Frits van Merode and Paul van der Nat
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:345
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  35. Urinary incontinence is a significant health problem with considerable social and economic consequences among older adults. The objective of this study was to investigate the financial impact of continuity of ...

    Authors: Eunkyung Han, Wankyo Chung, Antonio Trujillo, Joel Gittelsohn and Leiyu Shi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:344
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  36. Although differentiated service delivery (DSD) for HIV treatment was endorsed by the WHO in its landmark 2016 guidelines to lessen patients’ need to frequently visit clinics and hence to reduce unnecessary bu...

    Authors: Henry Zakumumpa, Japheth Kwiringira, Cordelia Katureebe and Neil Spicer
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:343
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  37. An increase in regionalization of obstetric services is being observed worldwide. This study investigated factors associated with the closure of obstetric units in hospitals in Germany and aimed to examine the...

    Authors: Jan Hoffmann, Till Dresbach, Carsten Hagenbeck and Nadine Scholten
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:342
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  38. The COVID-19 pandemic increased the use of telehealth consultations by telephone and video around the world. While telehealth can improve access to primary health care, there are significant gaps in our unders...

    Authors: Supriya Mathew, Michelle S. Fitts, Zania Liddle, Lisa Bourke, Narelle Campbell, Lorna Murakami-Gold, Deborah J Russell, John S. Humphreys, Edward Mullholand, Yuejen Zhao, Michael P. Jones, John Boffa, Mark Ramjan, Annie Tangey, Rosalie Schultz and John Wakerman
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:341
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  39. This project aimed to optimize communication strategies to support family communication about familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) and improve cascade testing uptake among at-risk relatives. Individuals and fami...

    Authors: Gemme Campbell-Salome, Laney K. Jones, Nicole L. Walters, Kelly M. Morgan, Andrew Brangan, Ilene G. Ladd, Mary P. McGowan, Katherine Wilemon, Tara J. Schmidlen, Emilie Simmons, Marci L. B. Schwartz, Megan N. McMinn, Eric Tricou, Alanna K. Rahm, Catherine D. Ahmed and Amy C. Sturm
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:340
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  40. Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a major determinant of healthcare costs and increase in the healthcare service use occur already before the AD diagnosis. However, little is known how the different diagnosis catego...

    Authors: Kiira Mäklin, Pasi Lampela, Julian Lin, Hartikainen Sirpa and Anna-Maija Tolppanen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:339
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  41. Prior to the pandemic, Canada lagged behind other Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development countries in the uptake of virtual care. The onset of COVID-19, however, resulted in a near-universal shi...

    Authors: Lindsay Hedden, Sarah Spencer, Maria Mathews, Emily Gard Marshall, Julia Lukewich, Shabnam Asghari, Judith Belle Brown, Paul S. Gill, Thomas R. Freeman, Rita K. McCracken, Bridget L. Ryan, Crystal Vaughan, Eric Wong, Richard Buote, Leslie Meredith, Lauren Moritz…
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:338
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  42. Data remain scarce on the costs of HIV services for key populations (KPs). The objective of this study was to bridge this gap in the literature by estimating the unit costs of HIV services delivered to KPs in ...

    Authors: Marjorie Opuni, Jorge Eduardo Sanchez-Morales, Jose Luis Figueroa, Andrea Salas-Ortiz, Louis Masankha Banda, Alice Olawo, Spy Munthali, Julius Korir, Meghan DiCarlo and Sergio Bautista-Arredondo
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:337
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  43. Mobile health (mHealth) technology could be used in different ways to treat various speech and language disorders. The attitude of speech-language pathologists (SLPs) towards this technology and their willingn...

    Authors: Soheila Saeedi, Marjan Ghazisaeedi, Maryam Ebrahimi, Mohammad-Sadegh Seifpanahi and Hamid Bouraghi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:336
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  44. Due to more elderly and patients with complex illnesses, there is an increasing pressure on the healthcare system. General practice especially feels this pressure as being the first point of contact for the pa...

    Authors: Josefine Graabaek Mikkelsen, Natasha Lee Sørensen, Camilla Hoffmann Merrild, Martin Bach Jensen and Janus Laust Thomsen
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:335
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  45. The government of Cameroon’s 2017 operational guidelines for the implementation of the “test and treat” strategy expressly incorporates and prescribes the differentiated service delivery (DSD) model with testi...

    Authors: Enongene Julius Mekolle, Kate Ivo Keumami, Omeichu Agwenam Amadeus, Agbor Nyenty Agbornkwai, Ismaila Esa and Aseh Christian Chuyum
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:334
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  46. Integrating cervical cancer screening into routine Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) care has been endorsed as an effective strategy for increasing uptake of cervical cancer screening, facilitating early dete...

    Authors: Mackline Ninsiima, Agnes Nyabigambo and Joseph Kagaayi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:333
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  47. Expeditious diagnosis and treatment of chronic conditions are critical to control the burden of non-communicable disease in low- and middle-income countries. We aimed to estimate sociodemographic and geographi...

    Authors: Sanjay K. Mohanty, Abhilasha, Radhe Shyam Mishra, Ashish Kumar Upadhyay, Owen O’Donnell and Jürgen Maurer
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:332
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  48. Workflow interruptions in pharmacies contribute to dispensing errors, a high-priority issue in patient safety, but have rarely been studied from a systemic perspective partly because of the limitations of the ...

    Authors: Takahiro Kojima, Noriyasu Kinoshita, Harumi Kitamura, Koji Tanaka, Ayumi Tokunaga, Satoshi Nakagawa, Takeru Abe and Kazue Nakajima
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:331
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  49. Low and lower middle-income countries suffer lack of healthcare providers and proper workforce education programs, a greater spread of illnesses, poor surveillance, efficient management, etc., which are addres...

    Authors: Shegaw Anagaw Mengiste, Konstantinos Antypas, Marius Rohde Johannessen, Jörn Klein and Gholamhossein Kazemi
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:328
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  50. The SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic increased use of telehealth for the management of opioid use disorder and chronic non-cancer pain in primary care safety net clinical systems. Significant barriers to telehea...

    Authors: Alexis Cooke, Stacy Castellanos, Celeste Enriquez, Pamela Olsen, Christine Miaskowski, Margot Kushel and Kelly Ray Knight
    Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2023 23:325
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