Quality Care Through Clinical Audit: Blood Sampling Practices By Nurses In The Emergency Department Of A University Affiliated Teaching Hospital by Aimen Malik, Muhammad Azam Awais, Maria Aziz, Mubariz Ahmed, Muhammad Furqan Hussain, Usman Qureshi

“…Based on our investigation, we could then make interventions to ensure that the guidelines were followed diligently. …”
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Revaluing Indigenous Models in Suicidology: A Brief Narrative Synthesis by Joanna Brooke, Caroline Lenette, Marianne Wobcke, Marly Wells

“…This review uses an anti-colonial approach to explore the characteristics of Indigenous interventions and best practice relating to suicidality. …”
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Transmigration of Mandibular Canines by N. Umashree, Avinash Kumar, Tejavathi Nagaraj

“…In patients with overretained deciduous canines or missing permanent canines, an intraoral radiograph should be supplemented with panoramic radiograph. …”
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Missingness matters: a secondary analysis of thromboelastography measurements from a recent prehospital randomized tranexamic acid clinical trial by Bellal Joseph, Raminder Nirula, Brian J Eastridge, Jason L Sperry, Joshua B Brown, Matthew D Neal, Gary A Vercruysse, Jack K Donohue, Nidhi Iyanna, John M Lorence, Frances X Guyette, Terence O'Keeffe

“…TEG parameter differences across TXA intervention arms were assessed within subgroups disproportionately present in the NO-TEG relative to the YES-TEG cohort. …”
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Rare “P-null” Phenotype – Two Case Reports from Western India by Drashti Gajera, Ujjwal Ahuja, Kamini Gupta, Nidhi Bhatnagar, Swati S. Kulkarni, Pooja D. Kshirsagar

“…As one of the cases is a young female, monitoring the titer of anti-PP1PK and early initiation of medical intervention are essential after her pregnancy.…”
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Mortality and recovery following moderate and severe acute malnutrition in children aged 6-18 months in rural Jharkhand and Odisha, eastern India: A cohort study. by Audrey Prost, Nirmala Nair, Andrew Copas, Hemanta Pradhan, Naomi Saville, Prasanta Tripathy, Rajkumar Gope, Shibanand Rath, Suchitra Rath, Jolene Skordis, Sanghita Bhattacharyya, Anthony Costello, Harshpal S Sachdev

“…A key limitation of our analysis was missing WLZ or MUAC data at all time points for 2.5% of children, including for two of the 36 children who died.…”
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A Health Service Research Study on a Low-Threshold Hearing Screening Program for Childhood Cancer Survivors in Switzerland: Protocol for the HEAR Study by Philippa Jörger, Carina Nigg, Luzius Mader, Sven Strebel, Martin Kompis, Zuzana Tomášiková, Christina Schindera, Gisela Michel, Nicolas Xavier von der Weid, Marc Ansari, Nicolas Waespe, Claudia Elisabeth Kuehni

“…However, hearing tests are usually only repeated in childhood cancer survivors with abnormal hearing during or right after treatment ends, leaving hearing loss undetected in childhood cancer survivors with late onset or when missed during cancer treatment. Further, general follow-up care attendance may be low after childhood cancer survivors transition to adult care, contributing to missing hearing screening posttherapy. …”
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Extracorporeal carbon dioxide removal compared to ventilation alone in patients with acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure: cost-utility analysis of the REST RCT by Ashley Agus, James J. McNamee, Colette Jackson, Danny F. McAuley

“…Multiple imputation was used for missing total cost and quality-adjusted life-year data in the cost-utility analysis. …”
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Defining performance and competency requirements for army responders to domestic flood response operations by Michael Joseph Hosken, Sharon L. O'Sullivan

“…The findings address critical granularity missing at the operational and tactical levels of humanitarian assistance and disaster relief research. …”
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Climate change, resource insecurities and sexual and reproductive health among young adolescents in Kenya: a multi-method qualitative inquiry by Robert Hogg, Peter A Newman, Sheri Weiser, Carmen H. Logie, Lesley Gittings, Aryssa Hasham, Julia Kagunda, Humphres Evelia, Clara Gachoki, Beldine Omondi, Mercy Wanjiru, Sarah Van Borek, Esme Fuller-Thomson, Lina Taing, Isabel Sternthal, Janet Turan

“…Food and water insecurity contributed to YA missing school, sexual violence, transactional sex and exploitative relationships. …”
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Metformin for covid-19: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials by Gordon Guyatt, Arnav Agarwal, Qi Zhou, Dena Zeraatkar, Thomas Agoritsas, Reed AC Siemieniuk, Romina Brignardello-Petersen, Nazmul Islam, Per Olav Vandvik, Saifur R Chowdhury, Md Kamrul Hasan, Mahmudur Rahman Chowdhury

“…However, the effect is based on a single trial of 1126 patients, which has a high risk of bias owing to missing data, and nearly half of the participants were unvaccinated.Conclusions Current evidence based on randomised trials suggests no significant effect of metformin on acute clinical outcomes in patients with non-severe covid-19. …”
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Assessing factors influencing participation in LDCT lung cancer screening among high-risk urban populations in Nanjing, China by Meijing Liu, Suqin Huang, Ziru Yu, Liling Dai, Jin Xiang, Yuan Qu, Xiuming Zhang, Wei Qiao, Yan Chen, Hairong Zhou, Longbiao Zhu, Chao Qin, Jing Han

“…Socio-demographic and clinical data were collected via questionnaires and LDCT reports, with missing values imputed via random forest models. Logistic regression was used to determine the factors associated with LDCT screening adherence. …”
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Health professional’s data management practice in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Mequannent Sharew Melaku, Bedilu Geremew, Tesema Zewdu, Zemenu Molla, Rukya Yassin, Agmasie Damtew Walle, Lamrot Yohannes

“…An additional 10 articles were excluded due to missing outcome data or unavailable full texts. Ultimately, 7 studies involving a total of 2654 health professionals were included in the meta-analysis. …”
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Imputation models and error analysis for phase contrast MR cerebral blood flow measurements in heterogeneous pediatric and adult populations by Eamon K. Doyle, Eamon K. Doyle, Isabel Torres, Isabel Torres, Joseph Liu, Abhishek Karnwal, Sudarshan Ranganathan, Sudarshan Ranganathan, Bradley J. De Souza, Payal Shah, Bradley S. Peterson, John C. Wood, John C. Wood, Matthew Thomas Borzage, Matthew Thomas Borzage, Matthew Thomas Borzage, Matthew Thomas Borzage

“…Cerebral blood flow is affected by normal brain development, disease, medications use, and other interventions. One method to measure CBF is phase contrast magnetic resonance (PC MR) imaging, a particularly fast and reliable method to measure blood flow through major arteries such as the internal carotid (ICA) or vertebral arteries (VA). …”
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Effectiveness of a community-based rehabilitation programme following hip fracture: results from the Fracture in the Elderly Multidisciplinary Rehabilitation phase III (FEMuR III)... by Ben Hardwick, Phillipa Logan, Rhiannon Tudor Edwards, Susanna Dodd, Catherine Sackley, Andrew Lemmey, Nefyn Williams, Llinos Haf Spencer, Monica Busse, Penelope Ralph, Shanaz Dorkenoo, Toby Smith, Jessica Green, Valerie Morrison, Benjamin Edward Smith, Kodchawan Doungsong, Rachael Cooper

“…At 52 weeks, there was no significant difference in NEADL score between the FEMuR intervention and control groups. Joint modelling analysis testing for difference in longitudinal outcome adjusted for missing values also found no significant difference with a mean difference of 0.1 (95% CI −1.1, 1.3). …”
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Acceptability of the Expert Standard for Oral Health Care in Older Adult Patients Among Nursing Staff in German Hospitals and Care Facilities: Protocol for a Cross-Sectional Study by Damian Pazdziernik, Harald Stummer

“…However, significant barriers, including high patient-to-nurse ratios and staff shortages, often result in missed or rationed nursing care, limiting the feasibility and implementation of such interventions. …”
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Determining the feasibility and acceptability of a randomized telehealth pilot study for veterans with chronic multisymptom illness by Charity B. Breneman, Kamila Pollin, Timothy Chun, Lucas Crock, Walter Jachimowicz, Rebecca A. McCullers, Ryan C. Brewster, Adil Alaoui, Anas Belouali, Michael J. Roy, Matthew J. Reinhard, Michelle E. Costanzo

“…The primary aim of the study was to evaluate the feasibility (e.g., recruitment, retention, and adherence rates; amount of missing data), safety (e.g., adverse events), and acceptability (e.g., satisfaction) of a telehealth MAP intervention. …”
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Stroke Prediction Based on Machine Learning by Zhang Yuhan

“…Data preprocessing encompasses managing missing data, processing categorical variables, and tackling issues related to class imbalance. …”
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The role of FOMO and mindfulness in the relationship between mobile phone dependence and sleep quality among Chinese youth: a mediating and moderating analysis by Fen Xie, Mengyu Li

“…IntroductionAddressing the impact of problematic mobile phone use on sleep quality has become a topic of concern for researchers, but the underlying mechanisms and effective intervention strategies remain under explored.MethodsThe aim of this study was to investigate the effects of cell phone dependence on sleep quality, examining the role of FOMO (fear of missing out) as a mediator and mindfulness as a moderator. …”
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Victims, civil society and transitional justice in Bosnia and Herzegovina by Humphrey Michael

“…These organizations emerged in the context of the top-down accountability agenda driven by the international crisis intervention in the Balkan wars and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). …”
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