All-Cause Mortality Prediction in Subjects with Diabetes Mellitus Using a Machine Learning Model and Shapley Values by Oana Mirea, Mostafa Ghelich Oghli, Oana Neagoe, Mihaela Berceanu, Eugen Țieranu, Liviu Moraru, Victor Raicea, Ionuț Donoiu

“…Identifying risk factors for mortality in these patients is crucial, as early recognition can facilitate prompt therapeutic intervention. Machine learning (ML) models have proved to be valuable tools in different scenarios of healthcare decision making. …”
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Oral Health Among the Elderly: A Cross Sectional study of the PERSIAN Guilan Cohort by Maryam Rabiei, Amir Ghaderi, Saba Masoudirad, Saman Maroufizadeh, Mehrnaz Asgharnezhad, Mohammadreza Naghipour, Farahnaz Joukar, Fariborz Mansour-Ghanaei

“…Data collection included oral examinations to determine the DMFT (Decayed, Missing, Filled Teeth) index and an assessment of oral hygiene practices. …”
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Dental treatment affordability and oral outcomes among U.S. adults: NHANES 2015–2018 by Shekhah Alkhabbaz, Dalal Altoorah, Abdullah Al-Kandari, Hebah Al-Dara’an, Muna Al-Mutairi, Woroud AlSulimmani, Hend Alqedari, Mohammed Alshanbari, Hesham Alhazmi

“…The key outcomes measured included the number of decayed teeth, missed teeth due to caries, and filled teeth (DMFT), the number of untreated teeth with dental decay and missing teeth, the presence of root caries, and the affordability of dental care as the main predictor. …”
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Socioeconomic status and sleep duration among a representative, cross-sectional sample of US adults by Sarah Wetzel, Usama Bilal

“…SES was operationalized using three indicators: poverty-income ratio, educational attainment, and food security status. We imputed missing data for socioeconomic status and outcome variables using multiple imputation. …”
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Engaging private providers to enhance tuberculosis detection and notification: evidence from TB REACH-Supported projects by Md. Toufiq Rahman, William A. Wells, Oriol Ramis, Vishnu V. Kamineni, Mirjam I. Bakker, Sode Matiku, Miranda Brouwer, Jacob Creswell

“…Twenty-five projects mapped 69,187 PPs, both formal and informal, and engaged 21,206 (31%) providers during the intervention period, 12,211 (58%) of whom actively referred at least one person with TB symptoms during the intervention period. …”
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Global strategies and local implementation of health and health-related SDGs: lessons from consultation in countries across five regions by Sameen Siddiqi, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Sara Causevic, Peter Friberg, Luis Huicho, Roman Mogilevskii, Fahad Javaid Siddiqui, Johanna Lindgren-Garcia, Anil Khamis, Mashal Murad Shah

“…The study offers messages to LMICs that would allow for a full decade of accelerated implementation of HHSDGs, and points to the need for more implementation research in each domain and for testing interventions that are likely to work before scale-up.…”
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Perceived acceptance, intention to use and actual use behavior of digital information technologies among nursing professionals in Shanghai: a cross-sectional study by Hui Xie, Pengjie Zhang, Wei Zhu

“…Therefore, policies and interventions should be developed to enhance the integration of DITs into nursing professionals’ daily practice.…”
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Teacher Personality Predicts Emotional Well-Being and Academic Achievement in Students with Specific Learning Disorders by Wanqin Yu, Olivia F. Ward, Brianna Paquette, Sylvie Mrug, Caroline G. Richter

“…The models controlled for student and teacher demographics, baseline emotional well-being, and the intervention group. Missing data were addressed using full information maximum likelihood (FIML). …”
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Integrative approaches to depression in end-stage renal disease: insights into mechanisms, impacts, and pharmacological strategies by Cheng Yuan, Fengpei Chang, Fengpei Chang, Hongfu Zhai, Jiayin Du, Danqin Lu, Haoli Ma, Xiaoyan Wu, Xiaoyan Wu, Ping Gao, Lihua Ni

“…Future research should focus on specific high-risk populations, particularly older adults and women under the age of 45, to better tailor interventions. The goal of this research is to improve understanding of depression in ESRD, leading to better patient care, improved quality of life, and superior clinical results.…”
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Caries Inhibition Potential of <italic>Salivarius</italic> M18 Probiotic in High-risk Children by Siragam Pavani Lakshmi, Suzan Sahana, Aron Arun Kumar Vasa, Done Vasanthi

“…All participants were subjected to evaluation of various parameters at baseline and 90 days following intervention. This included the decayed, missing, and filled teeth (DMFT)/dmft index, plaque index (Silness and Loe, 1964), and salivary <italic>S. mutans</italic> count (CFU/mL). …”
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From strategy to action: a qualitative study on salient factors influencing knowledge transfer in project-based experiential learning in healthcare organisations in Kenya by Tecla Chelagat, Joseph Onyango, Gilbert Kokwaro, Jim Rice

“…Transfer barriers were (inadequate management support, inadequate team and staff support, high staff turnover, misalignment of board’s verses manager’s priorities, missing technical expertise, endemic strikes, negative politics and poor communication). …”
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Mapping the path to domestic surrogacy: Identifying key facilitators and barriers in the Netherlands. by Malene Tanderup, Lone Schmidt, Amrita Pande, Birgitte Bruun Nielsen, Charlotte Kroløkke, Peter Humaidan

“…The data were analysed both inductively and deductively, using the Context and Implementation of Complex Interventions (CICI) framework to assess the contextual factors influencing the implementation of domestic surrogacy.…”
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Surgical versus conservative treatment for lumbar disc herniation: a prospective cohort study by Robert Theiler, Peter Jüni, Paul Hasler, Bruno R da Costa, Stephan Reichenbach, Marinella Gugliotta, Essam Dabis, Hans Landolt

“…Standard open discectomy was assessed versus conservative interventions at 6, 12, 52 and 104 weeks. We filled in missing outcome variable values with multiple imputation, accounted for repeated measures within patients with mixed-effects models and adjusted baseline group differences in relevant prognostic indicators by inverse probability of treatment weighting.Results Surgical treatment patients reported less back pain at 6 weeks than those receiving conservative therapy (−0.97; 95% CI −1.89 to −0.09), were more likely to report ≥50% decrease in back pain symptoms from baseline to 6 weeks (48% vs 17%, risk difference: 0.34; 95% CI 0.16 to 0.47) and reported less physical function disability at 52 weeks (−3.7; 95% CI −7.4 to −0.1). …”
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Associations of adverse childhood experiences with educational attainment and adolescent health and the role of family and socioeconomic factors: A prospective cohort study in the... by Lotte C Houtepen, Jon Heron, Matthew J Suderman, Abigail Fraser, Catherine R Chittleborough, Laura D Howe

“…The low PAFs for both ACEs and socioeconomic factors imply that interventions that focus solely on ACEs or solely on socioeconomic deprivation, whilst beneficial, would miss most cases of adverse educational and health outcomes. …”
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The Tuberculosis Cascade of Care in India's Public Sector: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. by Ramnath Subbaraman, Ruvandhi R Nathavitharana, Srinath Satyanarayana, Madhukar Pai, Beena E Thomas, Vineet K Chadha, Kiran Rade, Soumya Swaminathan, Kenneth H Mayer

“…<h4>Background</h4>India has 23% of the global burden of active tuberculosis (TB) patients and 27% of the world's "missing" patients, which includes those who may not have received effective TB care and could potentially spread TB to others. …”
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Does travel time matter?: predictors of transportation vulnerability and access to HIV care among people living with HIV in South Carolina by Sayward Elizabeth Harrison, Peiyin Hung, Katherine Green, Sarah J. Miller, Mariajosé Paton, Divya Ahuja, Sharon Weissman, Caroline Rudisill, Tammeka Evans

“…Conclusions In South Carolina—a rural southern state with a disproportionate burden of HIV—long travel time (> 30 min) to HIV care is associated with care disruptions, including more missed visits. Transportation interventions, as well as other efforts to expand rural access to HIV care, are urgently needed to ensure that all PLHIV are able to engage in consistent HIV care in order to reach and maintain viral suppression.…”
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Positive mental states and their relation to psychosocial resources: protocol of a systematic review focusing on cultural moderators by Klaus Lieb, Makiko Yamada, Sarah K Schäfer, Max Supke, Jana Meier, Hiro Taiyo Hamada, Michele Wessa

“…Correlates, that is, psychosocial resources, of positive mental states may represent a starting point for those interventions. To date, a comprehensive systematic review on those correlates is still missing as well as knowledge on culture-related differences.Methods and analysis A systematic review and meta-analysis on the longitudinal link between psychosocial resources (eg, income, optimism, social support and community coherence) and hedonic and eudaimonic positive mental states (eg, life satisfaction, happiness and forward-looking attitude) will be conducted. …”
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Exploring Gender Differences in Internet Addiction and Psychological Factors: A Study in a Spanish Sample by Manuel Varchetta, Ginevra Tagliaferri, Emanuela Mari, Alessandro Quaglieri, Clarissa Cricenti, Anna Maria Giannini, Manuel Martí-Vilar

“…Data were collected using standardized questionnaires to assess IA, IGD, SMA, phubbing, Fear of Missing Out (FoMO), emotional dysregulation, personality traits, and prosociality. …”
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Popliteal Artery Injury Following Knee Dislocation: Anatomy, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Outcomes by Kunj C. Vyas, Michael Abaskaron, Mikaila Carpenter, Taylor Manes, Morgan Turnow, Daniel T. DeGenova, Benjamin C. Taylor

“…Six studies were excluded due to missing vascular injury or functional outcome data or being written in a foreign language, leaving seven studies for inclusion. …”
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Prevalence of Obesity and Dental Caries in Kindergarten Children During the First Decade of Saudi Vision 2030: A Cross-Sectional Study by Heba M. Elkhodary, Deema J. Farsi, Nada J. Farsi, Logain K. Alattas, Ali B. Alshaikh, Najat M. Farsi

“…Following an oral examination, the decayed, missing, and filled teeth (dmft) scores were noted. …”
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