Pilot study to test the feasibility of a trial design and complex intervention on PRIoritising MUltimedication in Multimorbidity in general practices (PRIMUMpilot) by Rafael Perera, Marjan Van Den Akker, Ferdinand M Gerlach, Jose M Valderas, Martin Beyer, Christiane Muth, Lorenz Uhlmann, Corina Güthlin, Antje Erler, Sebastian Harder, Justine Rochon, Birgit Fullerton, André Knottnerus, Walter E Haefeli

“…Outcome measures on pain, functionality and self-reported adherence were unfeasible due to frequent missing values, an incorrect manual or potentially invalid results.Conclusions Intervention and trial design were feasible. …”
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Medical‐financial partnerships for improving financial and medical outcomes for lower‐income Americans: A systematic review by Julie Birkenmaier, Brandy R. Maynard, Harly M. Blumhagen, Hannah Shanks

“…In recent years, healthcare settings have emerged as focal points for poverty interventions with direct health implications. Medical institutions are increasingly implementing financial partnerships to provide interventions targeted at improving the financial well‐being of patients with the dual objective of boosting appointment attendance rates and alleviating financial burdens on patients. …”
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Supporting self-management with an internet intervention for low back pain in primary care: a RCT (SupportBack 2) by Adam W A Geraghty, Taeko Becque, Lisa C Roberts, Jonathan Hill, Nadine E Foster, Lucy Yardley, Beth Stuart, David A Turner, Gareth Griffiths, Frances Webley, Lorraine Durcan, Alannah Morgan, Stephanie Hughes, Sarah Bathers, Stephanie Butler-Walley, Simon Wathall, Gemma Mansell, Malcolm White, Firoza Davies, Paul Little

“…Internet-delivered interventions may provide rapid and scalable support for behavioural self-management. …”
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Effects of pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions for the management of sleep problems in people with fibromyalgia: a multi-methods evidence synthesis by Mari Imamura, Clare Robertson, Jemma Hudson, Daniel Whibley, Lorna Aucott, Katie Gillies, Marcus Beasley, Martin J Stevens, Paul Manson, Debra Dulake, Abhishek Abhishek, Nicole KY Tang, Gary J Macfarlane, Miriam Brazzelli

“…The majority of included studies were judged at high risk of bias in at least one risk-of-bias domain, often because of inadequate reporting of the randomisation process, missing outcome data, and, for most studies assessing non-pharmacological interventions, lack of blinding in the measurement of outcome. …”
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Providing TB and HIV outreach services to internally displaced populations in Northeast Nigeria: Results of a controlled intervention study. by Suraj A Abdullahi, Marina Smelyanskaya, Stephen John, Haruna I Adamu, Emperor Ubochioma, Ishaya Kennedy, Fatima A Abubakar, Haruna A Ago, Robert Stevens, Jacob Creswell

“…Although international investment supports some health interventions among IDPs, locally sourced solutions are lacking.…”
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Efficacy of asthma education program on asthma control in children with uncontrolled asthma by Zeynep Arıkan-Ayyıldız, Sakine Işık, Şule Çağlayan-Sözmen, Özden Anal, Özkan Karaman, Nevin Uzuner

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Classification of musculoskeletal pain using machine learning by Dalia Mohamed Fouad, Marwa Mahmoud Mahfouz, Mohammed Mostafa Mohamed, Mahmoud Yassin Elzanaty, Tarek Abd El-Hafeez

“…The dataset, containing 350 entries, was preprocessed to handle missing values, balance class distributions using SMOTE, and normalize features. …”
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of an Intelligent mHealth Intervention for Child Unintentional Injury Prevention: Protocol for a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial by Yang Yuan, Yuying Jing, Jiyu Li, Jieyi He, David C Schwebel, Peishan Ning, Zhenzhen Rao, Li Li, Guoqing Hu

“…The control group will receive routine safety education, while the intervention group will receive both routine safety education and the iCURE mHealth intervention focused on unintentional injury prevention and delivered via WeChat. …”
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Effectiveness of wearable technology‐based physical activity interventions for adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus: A systematic review and meta‐regression by Rachael Ern Ching Chua, Ying Lau, Wen Wei Ang, Allison Ann Ying Faustina Boey, Siew Tiang Lau

“…Subgroup and meta‐regression analyses found that function, duration of intervention, and age were significant covariates. According to the risk of bias version 2, more than half of the trials raised some concerns about the randomization process, deviations from the intended intervention, and missing outcome data. …”
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Effectiveness of a standardised and interactive intervention to prevent preschooler unintentional injury in rural China: a cluster randomised controlled trial by Jie Li, Guoqing Hu, David C Schwebel, Min Zhao, Peishan Ning, Wanhui Wang, Jieyi He, Weiqiang Li

“…Sensitivity analyses were employed based on the full analysis set to assess the impact of missing values on principal findings.Results Compared with the control group, the intervention group had a significantly lower unintentional injury incidence rate (aOR=0.78, 95% CI: 0.64 to 0.94) and higher proportions of correct answers to the 18 injury prevention questions (with aORs ranging from 1.78 to 22.10) after adjusting for socio-demographic factors and baseline values of the outcome variables. …”
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Web-Based Human Papillomavirus Education and Professional Skills Intervention for Health Care Providers: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial by Jacob Martinez, Jacquelin I Cordero, Meagan Whitney, Katie L LaRoche, Gabriel Frietze, Eva M Moya, Kristin Gosselink

“…We may use multiple imputation procedures to handle the missing data (if applicable). This study is being conducted in the west Texas or southeast New Mexico region of the United States. …”
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Novel Three-Day, Community-Based, Nonpharmacological Group Intervention for Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain (COPERS): A Randomised Clinical Trial. by Stephanie J C Taylor, Dawn Carnes, Kate Homer, Brennan C Kahan, Natalia Hounsome, Sandra Eldridge, Anne Spencer, Tamar Pincus, Anisur Rahman, Martin Underwood

“…Analyses followed the intention-to-treat principle, accounted for clustering by course in the intervention arm, and used multiple imputation for missing or incomplete primary outcome data. …”
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Internet and telephone intervention to support patients discontinuing long-term antidepressants in primary care: the REDUCE research programme including RCT by Tony Kendrick, Beth Stuart, Hannah Bowers, Mahboobeh Haji Sadeghi, Helen Page, Christopher Dowrick, Michael Moore, Mark Gabbay, Geraldine Leydon, Guiqing Lily Yao, Shihua Zhu, Paul Little, Gareth Griffiths, Glyn Lewis, Carl May, Joanna Moncrieff, Chris F Johnson, Una Macleod, Simon Gilbody, Rachel Dewar-Haggart, Samantha Williams, Wendy O’Brien, Riya Tiwari, Catherine Woods, Tasneem Patel, Naila Khan, Emma Maund, Nadja van Ginneken, Amy Din, Claire Reidy, Rebecca Lucier, Bryan Palmer, Taeko Becque, Yumna Masood, Natalie Thompson, Ellen van Leeuwen, Marta Glowacka, Adam WA Geraghty

“…Multiple imputation was used to account for missing values. A quantitative process evaluation looked at participants’ use of the online interventions (automatically recorded), and the fidelity of the PWP calls against the guidance provided. …”
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Clinical utility of targeted SARS-CoV-2 serology testing to aid the diagnosis and management of suspected missed, late or post-COVID-19 infection syndromes: Results from a pilot se... by Nicola Sweeney, Blair Merrick, Rui Pedro Galão, Suzanne Pickering, Alina Botgros, Harry D Wilson, Adrian W Signell, Gilberto Betancor, Mark Kia Ik Tan, John Ramble, Neophytos Kouphou, Sam Acors, Carl Graham, Jeffrey Seow, Eithne MacMahon, Stuart J D Neil, Michael H Malim, Katie Doores, Sam Douthwaite, Rahul Batra, Gaia Nebbia, Jonathan D Edgeworth

“…Greatest benefit was seen where there is reasonable pre-test probability and results can be linked with clinical advice or intervention. Experience from this pilot can help inform practicalities and benefits of rapidly implementing new tests such as LFIAs into clinical service as the pandemic evolves.…”
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Assessing "First Mile" Supply Chain Factors Affecting Timeliness of School-Based Deworming Interventions: Supply and Logistics Performance Indicators. by Kimberly M Koporc, Eric Strunz, Cassandra Holloway, David G Addiss, William Lin

“…To identify factors associated with on-time, delayed, or missed mass drug administration (MDA) interventions, and explore possible indicators for supply chain performance for drug donation programs, we reviewed program data for the 14 STH-endemic countries CWW supported during 2007-2012.…”
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Assessment of preparedness for emergency cesarean section by utilizing a checklist before and after an educational intervention: A quality improvement study by Shahana Sherin, Aswini Kuberan, Avantika Gupta, Mukilan Balasubramanian, Priya Rudingwa

“…We then conducted educational intervention sessions for residents of obstetrics and anesthesiology and for nursing officers on the significance of each step in the checklist, focusing on the steps that were often missed. …”
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Web-Based Video Intervention and Associated Factors for the Uptake of the Catch-Up Human Papillomavirus Vaccination in Japan: Randomized Controlled Trial by Toshiki Yoshioka, Atsushi Goto, Taichi Mizushima, Yukio Suzuki, Yutaka Ueda, Asami Yagi, Masayuki Sekine, Risa Kudo, Suzanne M Garland, Suresh Kumarasamy, Ida Ismail-Pratt, Katharina Reimer, Etsuko Miyagi

“…Following the termination of vaccination suspension in 2021 and subsequent proactive vaccination recommendation in 2022, it is crucial to promote catch-up vaccinations for those who missed their initial opportunity. ObjectiveThis study aims to evaluate the effect of video-based informational intervention and explore factors associated with the uptake of catch-up HPV vaccinations among unvaccinated young adult women in Japan. …”
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Effectiveness of care coordination interventions delivered to stroke survivors in low and middle-income countries: Systematic review and meta-analysis protocol. by Stephanopoulos Kofi Junior Osei, Anthony Danso-Appiah

“…Hand search of references of relevant studies will be carried out and experts in the field of stroke care coordination interventions will be contacted for their knowledge about any study missed by our searches. …”
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Three and Twelve Month Body Mass Outcomes After Attendance at a Community-Based Weight Management Intervention in the North West of England by David R. Broom, Nick Colledge, Orla Flannery

“…To confirm and account for missing data, the Last Observation Carried Forward (LOCF) approach was used. …”
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Clinical implications of the MELD-XI score in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention: Insights from the SAKURA PCI2 Antithrombotic registry by Mitsumasa Sudo, Riku Arai, Keisuke Kojima, Eizo Tachibana, Wataru Atsumi, Michiaki Matsumoto, Naoya Matsumoto, Kazumiki Nomoto, Takaaki Kogo, Ken Arima, Masaru Arai, Yutaka Koyama, Koji Oiwa, Hironori Haruta, Yasuo Okumura

“…Background: The association between hepatorenal function, assessed by the Model for End-stage Liver Disease eXcluding International normalized ratio (MELD-XI) score, and clinical prognosis remains unclear in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical implications of the MELD-XI score. …”
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