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| Author |
Manning, J. |
| Title |
Formative assessment: Using feedback to enhance learning |
Type |
Book Chapter |
Year  |
2005 |
Publication |
J. McDrury (Ed.), Nursing matters: A reader for teaching and learning in the clinical setting (pp. 47-65) |
Abbreviated Journal |
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Issue |
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Pages |
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| Keywords |
Evaluation; Teaching methods; Nursing; Education |
| Abstract |
This paper explores the literature surrounding the development, definition, process and value of formative feedback. In particular, this review considers how formative assessment can be used by a clinical educator in the practice setting. At the end of the chapter, discussion questions are provided by Rebecca Hennephof. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
Serial |
766 |
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| Author |
Cook, N.; Phillips, B.N.; Sadler, D. |
| Title |
The Tidal Model as experienced by patients and nurses in a regional forensic unit |
Type |
Journal Article |
| Year |
2005 |
Publication |
Journal of Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
15 |
Issue |
5 |
Pages |
536-540 |
| Keywords |
Psychiatric Nursing; Nursing models; Evaluation; Nurse-patient relations |
| Abstract |
This study looks at the effect of implementing the Tidal Model at Rangipapa, a regional secure mental health forensic unit. A phenomenological study was undertaken to obtain reflective description of the nursing care experience from the perspective's of four registered nurses and four “special patients”. Five major themes were identified that appeared to capture the experiences of the participants. The themes show changes to the unit's unique culture and values following implementation of the model. These changes engendered a sense of hope, where nurses felt they were making a difference and patients were able to communicate in their own words their feelings of hope and optimism. Levelling was experienced as an effect emerging from individual and group processes whereby a shift in power enhanced a sense of self and connectedness in their relationships. These interpersonal transactions were noted by the special patients as being positive for their recovery. This enabled effective nurse-patient collaboration expressed simply as working together. The participants reported a feeling of humanity, so that there was a human face to a potentially objectifying forensic setting. Implications arising from this study are that the use of the model enables a synergistic interpersonal process wherein nurses are professionally satisfied and patients are validated in their experience supporting their recovery. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
Serial |
941 |
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| Author |
Holloway, K. T.; Pearson, J.R. |
| Title |
Trailblazers: Primary health care programme evaluation |
Type |
Conference Article |
| Year |
2005 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
coda, An Institutional Repository for the New Zealand ITP Sector |
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Paper presented June 2004 at Royal New Zealand Plu |
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Pages |
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| Keywords |
New graduate nurses; Primary health care; Evaluation research; Professional development |
| Abstract |
This report is an evaluation of the academic journey undertaken by a group of newly graduated nurses who were sponsored by a New Zealand district health board to work in a variety of primary health care nursing settings. The impetus for this pilot employment option was the Ministry of Health's focus on primary health care nursing and workforce development for this sector and the Expert Advisory Committee for primary health care nursing's recommendations to district health boards regarding employment of graduate nurses and support for them to engage in post graduate study. Evaluation participants were primarily the graduate nurses who were interviewed at the end of their first year of practice which was following programme completion then again nine to ten months later. Findings include the nurses reflections on what supported them and what acted to impede as barriers to their learning success and practice development. The report concludes with five recommendations that can be used to ensure that the travels of future newly graduated nurses taking this pathway are supported, safe and successful. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
Serial |
1200 |
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| Author |
Clendon, J.; Krothe, J. |
| Title |
The nurse-managed clinic: An evaluative study |
Type |
Journal Article |
| Year |
2004 |
Publication |
Nursing Praxis in New Zealand |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
20 |
Issue |
2 |
Pages |
15-23 |
| Keywords |
Evaluation research; Nurse managers; Primary health care; Cross-cultural comparison |
| Abstract |
Part of an international project, the aim of this study was to evaluate a nurse managed primary health care clinic (Mana Health Clinic) from the perspectives of users, funders, and providers of clinical services in order to identify factors which contribute to success. The method used was Fourth Generation Evaluation (FGE) whereby, consistent with the methodological precepts of the constructivist enquiry paradigm, there was active involvement of clients in the process and outcome of the evaluation. Open-ended interviews were conducted with 13 individuals and one focus group. The data yielded four main categories: factors that contribute to success; contrasting past experience of health care with that of nurse-managed care; the effectiveness of nurse-managed care; and suggestions for change in current practice. The authors note that the results to date support a tentative conclusion of success for the clinic. As the study is on-going, summaries of the four categories were fed back to the participants for further discussion and interpretation and eventual integration with data from the similar study being undertaken in the United States. The authors conclude that this paper demonstrates how the use of an appropriate method of evaluation can itself contribute to the success of the nurse managed clinic. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
Serial |
547 |
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| Author |
McKillop, A.M. |
| Title |
Evaluation of the implementation of a best practice information sheet: Tracheal suctioning of adults with an artificial airway |
Type |
Journal Article |
| Year |
2004 |
Publication |
JBI Reports |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
2 |
Issue |
9 |
Pages |
293-308 |
| Keywords |
Evidence-based medicine; Nursing; Guidelines; Evaluation |
| Abstract |
This report presents an evaluation of the implementation of a best practice information sheet related to tracheal suctioning of adults with an artificial airway. The Centre for Evidence-Based Nursing Aotearoa, based in Auckland, conducted a systematic review of the evidence and produced the best practice information sheet. A survey of 105 nurses was conducted at three sites, in New Zealand and Australia. Using a before/after design, data were collected at the time of release of the information sheet and then approximately 12 months later. The study suggests a trend towards a modest uptake of best practice recommendations into nursing practice demonstrated by some behavioural changes within a 12-month period in the context of an implementation plan and the best practice information sheet. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
Serial |
696 |
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| Author |
Ritchie, M.S. |
| Title |
Process evaluation of an emergency department family violence intervention programme |
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2004 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Victoria University of Wellington Library |
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Issue |
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Pages |
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| Keywords |
Emergency nursing; Evaluation |
| Abstract |
Family violence is common and there are significant long-term negative health effects from victimisation. Health professionals are now recognised as key providers of family violence intervention. The Hawke's Bay District Health Board HBDHB) launched a Family Violence Intervention Programme in the emergency department in 2002, in accordance with national directives. The Family Violence Intervention Programme includes routine questioning for partner abuse within social history assessments for all women 16 years and over who seek healthcare services. Nurses assumed responsibility for implementing this programme into emergency department practice. Establishing partner abuse screening in practice requires an organisational and attitudinal change. Achieving and sustaining this change can be difficult. Evaluation was considered an essential aspect of the systems approach adopted within the HBDHB Family Violence Intervention Programme to support change. The aim of this study was to identify the enablers and barriers to routine questioning in the emergency department one year after the programme was launched and the strategies to address these barriers. The staff who have responsibility for routinely questioning women were considered well placed to provide this information. The methodology selected was evaluation research using semi-structured interviews. The design included member checking and triangulation of the findings. Eleven emergency department staff members participated in five (two group and three single) interviews. The interviews revealed that routine questioning for partner abuse is difficult in the emergency department setting. Barriers to questioning exist and enablers can eliminate or minimise these. Enablers such as policy and training support routine questioning. Barriers identified included the lack of privacy and time. Participants suggested strategies to overcome these. These barriers, enablers and solutions were either personal or organisational in origin and all had a common theme of safety. An outcome of the study was the development of a model of barriers and enablers to ensure safety when routinely questioning women for partner abuse. This evaluation has utility within the HBDHB as it informs programme progression. However, the evaluation has wider implications. The experiences of the emergency department staff led to the emergence of key themes that may inform the development of comparable programmes. Introducing routine questioning requires a practice change; a multifaceted approach focusing on safety can assist staff to achieve that change. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
Serial |
851 |
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| Author |
Brinkman, A.; Caughley, B. |
| Title |
Measuring on-the-job stress accurately |
Type |
Journal Article |
| Year |
2004 |
Publication |
Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
18 |
Issue |
8 |
Pages |
12-15 |
| Keywords |
Stress; Evaluation research; Workplace; Occupational health and safety |
| Abstract |
The authors discuss the usefulness of a generic tool to measure job stress in New Zealand workplaces, and report on a study using one such generic tool. The study involved sending questionnaires to all staff (193) who had worked at a regional women's health service for a minimum of six months. The mailed package contained the Job Stress Survey (JSS), the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12), demographic questions (including cultural safety), shift work questions, and a blank page for “qualitative comment”. Over 12,000 pieces of data were collected from the study but this article focuses only on the results of the JSS. The JSS can be used to determine a “job stress index” and can also be used to measure “job pressure” and “lack of organisational support”. For this study, job stress index scores were calculated and organised by occupational groupings. Midwives, nurses and doctors all cited inadequate or poor quality equipment, excessive paperwork, insufficient personal time, and frequent interruptions, as their top stressors. Three of these four stressors fall within the job pressure index. The results of the survey prompted organisational changes, including: extensive discussions; equipment being updated; management being made aware of the depth of concern felt by staff; the creation of a place for staff to have personal time; and coping intervention strategies were initiated. The authors suggest that no generic measure of job stress can fully evaluate stressors unique to a particular work setting. They support additional items being constructed and administered to assess stressors that are idiosyncratic to a particular occupational group. |
| Call Number |
NRSNZNO @ research @ 1003 |
Serial |
987 |
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| Author |
Fraser, A.G.; Williamson, S.; Lane, M.; Hollis, B. |
| Title |
Nurse-led dyspepsia clinic using the urea breath test for Helicobacter pylori |
Type |
Journal Article |
| Year |
2003 |
Publication |
New Zealand Medical Journal |
Abbreviated Journal |
Access is free to articles older than 6 months, and abstracts. |
| Volume |
116 |
Issue |
1176 |
Pages |
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| Keywords |
Advanced nursing practice; Hospitals; Clinical assessment; Evaluation |
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Reports the audit of a nurse-led dyspepsia clinic at Auckland Hospital. Referrals to the Gastroenterology Department for gastroscopy were assessed in a dyspepsia clinic. Initial evaluation included consultation and a urea breath test (UBT). Patients given eradication treatment prior to initial clinic assessment were excluded. Patients with a positive UBT were given eradication treatment and were reviewed two months later for symptom assessment and follow-up UBT. Patients with a negative UBT were usually referred back to the GP. There were 173 patients with a mean age 38 years. The urea breath test was found to be useful as part of the initial assessment of selected patients who would otherwise have been referred for endoscopy. It is likely that the need for gastroscopy was reduced, but longer follow up will be required to determine whether or not this effect is simply due to delayed referral. This approach is likely to have value only in patients who have a relatively high chance of being H. pylori positive. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 625 |
Serial |
611 |
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Vernon, R.A. |
| Title |
Developing clinical skill competency of undergraduate nursing students utilising a simulated psychomotor skill laboratory and model of self-directed learning: An evaluation research study |
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2003 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Massey University Library |
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Issue |
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Pages |
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| Keywords |
Students; Evaluation |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 871 |
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855 |
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| Author |
Clendon, J. |
| Title |
Nurse-managed clinics: Issues in evaluation |
Type |
Journal Article |
| Year |
2003 |
Publication |
Journal of Advanced Nursing |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
44 |
Issue |
6 |
Pages |
558-565 |
| Keywords |
Evaluation research; Nurse managers; Qualiltative research; Patient satisfaction |
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This article explores the importance of evaluation of nurse-managed clinics using the Mana Health Clinic in Auckland, as an example. Fourth generation evaluation is offered as an appropriate methodology for undertaking evaluation of nurse-managed clinics. Fourth generation evaluation actively seeks involvement of clients in the process and outcome of the evaluation, resulting in participation and empowerment of stakeholders in the service – a precept often forgotten in traditional evaluation strategies and of vital importance in understanding why people use nurse-managed clinics. The method proposed here also incorporates the need for quantitative data. The main argument is that a combination of qualitative and quantitative data sources is likely to give the greatest understanding of nurse-managed clinics' utilisation. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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949 |
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O'Brien, A.P.; O'Brien, A.J.; Hardy, D.J.; Morrison-Ngatai, E.; Gaskin, C.J.; Boddy, J.M.; McNulty, N.; Ryan, T.; Skews, G. |
| Title |
The New Zealand development and trial of mental health nursing clinical indicators: A bicultural study |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2003 |
Publication |
International Journal of Nursing Studies |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
40 |
Issue |
8 |
Pages |
853-861 |
| Keywords |
Biculturalism; Psychiatric Nursing; Professional competence; Evaluation |
| Abstract |
This paper describes the development and validation of bicultural clinical indicators that measure achievement of mental health nursing practice standards in New Zealand (ANZMCHN, 1995, Standards of practice for mental health nursing in New Zealand). A four-stage research design was utilised including focus groups, Delphi surveys, a pilot, and a national field study, with mental health nurses and consumers as participants. Results revealed a variation in the mean occurrence of the clinical indicators in consumer case notes of 18.5-89.9%. Five factors with good internal consistency, encompassing domains of mental health nursing required for best practice, were derived from analysis of the questionnaire. This study presents a research framework for developing culturally and clinically valid, reliable measures of clinical practice. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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956 |
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| Author |
Milligan, K.; Neville, S.J. |
| Title |
The contextualisation of health assessment |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2003 |
Publication |
Nursing Praxis in New Zealand |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
19 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
23-31 |
| Keywords |
Cross-cultural comparison; Evaluation; Nursing |
| Abstract |
The authors defines health assessment and argue that it is a tool nurses should be using as a means of improving health outcomes for clients. The skills involved in health assessments are analysed, and four levels of data gathering are identified. The authors present an historical perspective, tracing the development of these skills as they have been incorporated in nursing practice in North America and Australia. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1095 |
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| Author |
Horsburgh, M.; Smith, V.A.; Kivell, D. |
| Title |
South Auckland community paediatric nursing service: A framework for evaluation |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2002 |
Publication |
Nursing Praxis in New Zealand |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
18 |
Issue |
3 |
Pages |
40-49 |
| Keywords |
Paediatric nursing; Community health nursing; Evaluation research |
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This paper describes the Kidz First paediatric community homecare nursing team in South Auckland. While the service was not initially planned as an integrated approach to child health, its evolution reflects the move to more community based care delivery and the expansion of nurse-led initiatives in New Zealand. The components of a community paediatric home nursing team as described by Eaton (2000) are used to provide the framework with which to describe the service. A focus group held with the Kidz First paediatric community homecare nurses has enabled definition of the key nursing components provided to children and their families living in South Auckland. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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622 |
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Gohns, A. |
| Title |
Management of opioid substitution treatment in the primary health care setting: A national training course for service providers |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2002 |
Publication |
New Zealand Family Physician |
Abbreviated Journal |
Full text online from the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners' website |
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29 |
Issue |
3 |
Pages |
172-175 |
| Keywords |
Pharmacology; Evaluation; Primary health care |
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The aim of this research was to describe a national opioid treatment training programme that was introduced into primary health care, and evaluate its effectiveness following its first year of operation. The programme was introduced as a strategy to recruit, train and support a primary health care workforce in the provision of methadone treatment. For the evaluation a written questionnaire was sent to the general practitioner, practice nurse and pharmacist participants of training programmes held throughout New Zealand in 2000. One hundred and forty-five (98%) participants reported that the overall quality of the course was good or better, and that relevant issues were, in general, covered. However a recurring theme related to difficulties in designing a course relevant to the three different professional groups, with some material not equally applicable to all. Another prominent theme pertained to the issue of funding. general practitioners lamented the failure to address the issue of transferring patients from a free specialist clinic to their practice for care. The evaluation of this pilot programme indicates that this training in methadone maintenance treatment was well-received by primary health care providers. However, the author notes that there is no benchmark with which to compare it. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1099 |
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| Author |
Litchfield, M. |
| Title |
The successful design and delivery of rural health services: The meaning of success |
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Report |
| Year |
2002 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Online on the Ministry of Health's Centre for Rural Health pages |
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Pages |
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| Keywords |
Evaluation; Rural health services; Primary health care |
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This is the report of the analysis of data from an in-depth survey designed by Sue Dawson, previously Rural Health Researcher in the Centre for Rural Health, and follow-up interviews. The study purpose was to construct a definition of “successful design and delivery of rural health services” as a step towards a measurement tool. Participants were grouped as general practitioners, nurses and community representatives. A format for a participatory approach to evaluation of rural health services is derived from the criteria of success identified, with its relevance for the implementation of the new Government primary health care strategy explicit. This format provided the basis for a subsequent evaluation case study undertaken in a small rural forestry township by the Centre for Rural Health. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1177 |
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