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The editorial team produced a survey to assess the international response to the proposed category structure, definitions, and management recommendations in this draft.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>A web\u2010based survey of 186 questions was generated using the Qualtrics software package (Provo, Utah) supported by the Division of Information Technology at the University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison. The survey was advertised widely\u2014including through the IAC, American Society of Cytopathology, Japanese Society of Clinical Cytology, Papanicolaou Society of Cytopathology, and Australian Society of Cytology and to audiences at national and international meetings\u2014and was available from April to June 2018. 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