Exercise for people living with frailty and receiving haemodialysis: a mixed-methods randomised controlled feasibility study by Sally J Singh, Helen C Eborall, Alice C Smith, Matthew P M Graham-Brown, Hannah M L Young, Daniel S March, Patrick J Highton, Darren C Churchward, Charlotte Grantham, Samantha Goodliffe, William Jones, Mei-Mei Cheung, Sharlene A Greenwood, James O Burton

“…The exercise group completed 74% of sessions. 27%–89% of secondary outcome data were missing. Frail HD patients outlined several ways to enhance trial procedures. …”
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Construct validity of measures of care home resident quality of life: cross-sectional analysis using data from a pilot minimum data set in England by Stephen Allan, Stacey Rand, Ann-Marie Towers, Kaat De Corte, Freya Tracey, Elizabeth Crellin, Therese Lloyd, Rachael E. Carroll, Sinead Palmer, Lucy Webster, Adam Gordon, Nick Smith, Gizdem Akdur, Anne Killett, Karen Spilsbury, Claire Goodman

“…Abstract Background To maintain good standards of care, evaluations of policy interventions or potential improvements to care are required. …”
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Pearl River Delta: Scales, Times, Domains by Liang Xiong

“…Mapping served as a tool with which to not only represent existing knowledge, but also to seek missing knowledge. The intervention of this mapping framework was applied and evaluated in terms of design, decision-making, and education, and the insights gained were used to discover new possibilities and strategies for the delta. …”
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Symbrachydactyly by Govindasamy Balakrishnan, S. Vijayaragavan, Balakrishnan Somesh

“…Symbrachydactyly is a rare congenital hand malformation in which a child is born with abnormally short digits that may be webbed, misshaped, or missing, and it is usually a unilateral condition. …”
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Leveraging Leadership Development to Pre-Empt Leader Derailments by Jay A. Conger

“…This article examines the role of leadership development interventions in pre-empting leader derailments. The research literature suggests that derailments are not only commonplace but associated with a range of significant costs, from financial, to mental health, to morale, to employee turnover, to missed opportunities. …”
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Family profiles in relation to early childhood caries: a cross-sectional study in France by Hélène Behal, Thomas Marquillier, Marie Craquelin, Thomas Trentesaux, Caroline Delfosse, Caroline Duhamel, Romane Matteucci, Soline Nonclercq, Antoine Duhr, Angéline Leblanc, Elodie Tiertant, Pierre Lombrail, Sylvie Azogui-Levy

“…These at-risk profiles highlight the need to implement specific interventions acting at different levels and focused on oral health education in interprofessional practice during the key period of the first 1000 days of life. …”
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Mentorship in endocrinology training: a cross-sectional study of the United States and EuropeResearch in context by David Toro-Tobon, Heather Billings, Anina F. Peersen, Elizabeth J. Atkinson, Antoan S. Sojat, Ljiljana V. Marina, Irina Bancos

“…Those who had completed more than 7 years of training post-medical school or had missing data on duration of training were excluded. …”
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Non-adherence to antenatal iron supplementation and its determinants among pregnant women in 35 sub-saharan African countries: a generalized linear mixed-effects modeling with robu... by Kusse Urmale Mare, Setognal Birara Aychiluhm, Getahun Fentaw Mulaw, Kebede Gemeda Sabo, Oumer Abdulkadir Ebrahim, Tsion Mulat Tebeje, Beminate Lemma Seifu

“…Abstract Background Despite the integration of iron supplementation into routine antenatal care programs as a nutritional intervention to prevent anemia in pregnant women, the use of this supplement for the recommended duration remains low in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). …”
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Dietary attribution to burden of chronic disease in Australia: a systematic analysis of the Australian Institute of health and welfare 2024 national burden of disease datasetResear... by Yuanxin Xu, Jing Sun

“…Since the 2024 death counts were missing, total mortality attributable to dietary risks was expressed as the percentage change from 2003 to 2018. …”
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Facilitators, barriers, and strategies for the implementation of peer-led tuberculosis active case finding among people who use drugs in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. by Lilian Tina Minja, Liana Monica Minja, Kilian Mlalama, Doreen Pamba, Jerry Hella, Samwel Likindikoki, Cassian Nyandindi, Jessie Mbwambo, Klaus Reither, Jennifer M Belus

“…In 2023, an estimated 2.7 million cases of TB were undiagnosed or unreported. To address missing cases, the World Health Organization recommends systematic screening for TB. …”
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Can routinely collected primary healthcare data be used to assess Aboriginal children's health and wellbeing longitudinally? A retrospective analysis of electronic medical records... by Catherine Lloyd-Johnsen, John Boffa, Vahab Baghbanian, Rachel Walpole, Shuaijun Guo, Sandra Eades, Anita D'Aprano, Sharon Goldfeld

“…Longitudinal analysis of EMRs can identify opportunities for targeted interventions to improve health outcomes for children. …”
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Effectiveness of an oral health curriculum in reducing dental caries increment and improving oral hygiene behaviour among schoolchildren of Ernakulam district in Kerala, India: stu... by Vijay Kumar, Denny John, Hindol Das, Chandrashekar Janakiram, Venkitachalam Ramanarayanan, Vineetha Karuveettil, Parvathy Balachandran, Balagopal Varma

“…The outcome measures are Decayed, Missing and Filled Teeth Index; Oral Hygiene Index-Simplified; and knowledge, attitude and behaviour. …”
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Proposal for the virtual and material reconstruction through anastylosis of the archaeological remains of the Patio of the Renaissance Palace of the Ambassador Vich in Valencia, Sp... by Mercedes Galiana Agulló, Ángeles Mas Tomás, Carlos Lerma Elvira, Salvador Conesa Tejada

“…After its demolition, part of the courtyard’s marbles was conserved, gathered, after a century and a half of pilgrimage in a unifying intervention in the Museum of Fine Arts of San Pío V in 2006. …”
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Pertinence des reformes LMD au Cameroun : analyses des qualités personnelles et professionnelles des diplômés employés dans les entreprises formelles by Joseph Bomda, Innocent Fozing, Vandelin Mgbwa

“…Following multiple imputation of missing values, the test of homogeneity of variances (Box Test) led them to the use of the non-parametric Kruskal-Wallis H test. …”
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Unerupted maxillary central incisors: a case report and review of the literature by O. O. Orenuga, J. O. Eigbobo

“… Missing or unerupted central incisors in a child can have a major impact on oro-facial aesthetics. …”
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Evaluation of diabetes care services, data quality, and availability of resources in Ethiopia: Difference-in-differences analysis of the NORAD-WHO NCDs’ midterm project evaluation... by Yimer Seid Yimer, Meaza Gezu Shentema, Zenawi Hagos Gufue, Awgichew Kifle Zemelak, Zeytu Gashaw Asfaw, Sefonias Getachew, Mulugeta Tamire, Kalkidan Solomon, Asmamaw Bezabeh Workneh, Girma Taye Aweke

“…Additionally, we performed a difference-in-differences (DID) regression analysis comparing data from two periods: before the intervention (January to December 2019) and after the intervention (July 2022 to June 2023). …”
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How lived experiences of illness trajectories, burdens of treatment, and social inequalities shape service user and caregiver participation in health and social care: a theory-info... by Carl R May, Katja C Gravenhorst, Alyson Hillis, Mick Arber, Carolyn A Chew-Graham, Katie I Gallacher, Frances S Mair, Ellen Nolte, Alison Richardson

“…We used the following constructs to map supportive interventions proposed by review authors. These set out a range of supportive interventions that are needed by caregiver and service users as they pass through illness trajectories. …”
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Impact of IYCF practices, as measured by national nutrition surveys from 2018 to 2022, on stunting and under-5 survival in Burkina Faso: a LiST analysis by Natacha Kere, Ella W. R. Compaore, Ella W. R. Compaore, Youssouf Keita, Daniel S. Ouedraogo, Souleymane Tirogo, Estelle A. Bambara, Z. Thierry Coulibaly, Mamoudou H. Dicko

“…To tackle this situation, a number of child nutrition interventions have been implemented. This study aims to assess the impact of these interventions on the nutritional status of children aged 0–5 years between 2018 and 2022.MethodsThis study is a modeling of the impact of changes in the coverage of interventions with known effect sizes, using the LiST (Lives Saved Tool). …”
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Oncological and Survival Endpoints in Cancer Cachexia Clinical Trials: Systematic Review 6 of the Cachexia Endpoints Series by Olav Dajani, Iain Philips, Ester Kristine Størkson, Trude R. Balstad, Leo R. Brown, Asta Bye, Ross Dolan, Christine Greil, Marianne Hjermstad, Gunnhild Jakobsen, Stein Kaasa, James McDonald, Inger Ottestad, Judith Sayers, Melanie Simpson, Mariana S. Sousa, Ola Magne Vagnildhaug, Michael S. Yule, Barry J. A. Laird, Richard J. E. Skipworth, Tora S. Solheim, Mark Stares, Jann Arends, the Cancer Cachexia Endpoints Working Group

“…Reported significances were unreliable due to missing adjustments for extensive multiple testing. …”
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Clinical and cost-effectiveness of lithium versus quetiapine augmentation for treatment-resistant depression in adults: LQD a pragmatic randomised controlled trial by Jess Kerr-Gaffney, Zohra Zenasni, Kimberley Goldsmith, Nahel Yaziji, Huajie Jin, Alessandro Colasanti, John Geddes, David Kessler, R Hamish McAllister-Williams, Allan H Young, Alvaro Barrera, Lindsey Marwood, Rachael W Taylor, Helena Tee, Anthony J Cleare

“…Further, there was substantial missing data for some of the secondary outcome measures. …”
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