Mediation of the association between education and dementia by occupational complexity, income, health behaviours and health outcomes by Katherine Taylor, Louise Marston, Naaheed Mukadam

“…Methods Data was sourced from UK Biobank and multiple imputation used to replace missing values. Education was measured at baseline assessment and dementia diagnosis determined from self-report or linked healthcare records. …”
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Enhancing student success prediction in higher education with swarm optimized enhanced efficientNet attention mechanism. by Meshari Alazmi, Nasir Ayub

“…The key insights the current research provides are the necessity of early intervention and directed training support in the educational domain. …”
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Water Quality Suitability and Sanitary Inspection of Hand-Dug Wells of Merawi Town, Ethiopia by Selamawit Tadele, Andinet Kebede Tekile

“…To achieve, the missing access to potable water, the utility needs to develop long-term goals. …”
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Optimizing PSO for classification: comparison of Naïve Bayes and C4.5 for osteoporosis prediction by Zulfi Anugerahwati, Sri Lestari

“…Identifying individuals at high risk, more effective early detection and intervention, improving the potential for timely management and prevention.…”
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Comparison of concurrent, resistance, or aerobic training on body fat loss: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Kworweinski Lafontant, Alexa Rukstela, Ardis Hanson, Janet Chan, Yasamian Alsayed, Wayne A. Ayers-Creech, Cassidy Bale, Yuto Ohigashi, John Solis, Gretchen Shelton, Indira Alur, Cassandra Resler, Andrew Heath, Savannah Ericksen, Scott C. Forbes, Bill I. Campbell

“…Combining aerobic and resistance exercises on the same-day or different-day does not appear to influence the effectiveness of CT. When exercise interventions are short in duration (<10 weeks), there does not appear to be a difference in fat loss between exercise modalities. …”
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Tuberculosis prevalence after 4 years of population-wide systematic TB symptom screening and universal testing and treatment for HIV in the HPTN 071 (PopART) community-randomised t... by Eveline Klinkenberg, Sian Floyd, Kwame Shanaube, Linda Mureithi, Thomas Gachie, Petra de Haas, Barry Kosloff, Peter J Dodd, Maria Ruperez, Chali Wapamesa, James Michael Burnett, Nico Kalisvaart, Nkatya Kasese, Redwaan Vermaak, Albertus Schaap, Sarah Fidler, Richard Hayes, Helen Ayles, TREATS study team

“…<h4>Background</h4>Tuberculosis (TB) prevalence remains persistently high in many settings, with new or expanded interventions required to achieve substantial reductions. …”
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Effects of individualized comprehensive nutritional support on inflammatory markers, serum amylase (AMS), prealbumin (PA), albumin (ALB), calcium ion (Ca2+) in patients with severe... by Liu Xiaoxi, Meng Wei

“…Results: Among the 102 patients included in this study, 3 cases had sudden exacerbation during the intervention, 1 case had clinical data missing >10%, and 1 case voluntarily withdrew due to personal factors, all of which were eliminated. …”
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Early ward discharge clinic: facilitating discharges and prompt follow-up for medical inpatients in a district general hospital by Tasneem Ahmed, Georgia Kate Galloway, Sarah Nahin Choudhury

“…Peterborough City Hospital (PCH) designed an early ward discharge clinic (EWDC) service embedded within its acute medicine department to provide clinicians with the opportunity for a prompt clinical review following a hospital admission.Across three cycles, several interventions aimed to improve the utilisation of clinic, appropriateness of referrals and reduce the number of missed attendances. …”
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Blunt abdominal trauma resulting in pancreatic injury in a pediatric patient in Australia: a case report by Harmanjit Dev, Colin Kikiros

“…Pancreatic injuries in the pediatric population are often missed and hence require a thorough workup in children presenting with any form of abdominal injury. …”
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IkasSasoi: movilizando la comunidad para fomentar la actividad física de la población adolescente de Irun (IkasSasoi: mobilizing the community to promote physical activity among te... by Iñaki Iturrioz, Iñaki Arrese-Igor, David Izaga, Jokin Vesga, Pedro Iturrioz, Álvaro Cano, Miguel Á. Izquierdo, José Ramon Otegi, Arantxa Uranga

“…The main areas for improvement relate to missed intervention’s deadlines of interventions and the unequal involvement of actors, especially in schools. …”
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Chronic Pain in the Emergency Department: A Pilot Interdisciplinary Program Demonstrates Improvements in Disability, Psychosocial Function, and Healthcare Utilization by Joshua A. Rash, Patricia A. Poulin, Yaadwinder Shergill, Heather Romanow, Jeffrey Freeman, Monica Taljaard, Guy Hebert, Ian G. Stiell, Catherine E. Smyth

“…Nine patients completed 12-month follow-up. Missing data and attrition were handled using multiple imputation. …”
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European, multicentre, prospective observational phase IV clinical study to assess the impact of lebrikizumab on health-related well-being and control of skin manifestations in pat... by Matthias Augustin, Hilde Lapeere, Anthony Bewley, Christian Vestergaard, Thomas Werfel, Eric Massana, Ismail Kasujee, Marie-Charlotte Brüggen, Marjolein S de Bruin-Weller, Khaled Ezzedine, Silvia M Ferrucci, Spyridon Gkalpakiotis, Pedro Herranz, Emma K Johansson, Tomáš Kampe, Franz J Legat, Eva Maria Rehbinder, Jacek C Szepietowski, Tiago Torres, Arnau Domenech, Volker Koscielny, Siva Narayanan, Jan Gutermuth

“…Statistical analyses will be descriptive and explorative and based on observed cases. Missing data imputation may be used to handle missing data for primary endpoints and secondary effectiveness endpoints.Ethics and dissemination This study will be conducted according to the protocol, which has ethics committee approval (Hamburg Ethic Committee in Germany: 2024-101358-BO-ff), and all applicable laws and regulatory requirements for each participating country. …”
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Effect of exercise rehabilitation, neuromuscular muscle stimulation, and massage on ischemic stroke recovery and hypertension: a randomized trial by Ammar Hadi, Shimal H. Hamad, Nabaz Ali Ahmed

“…Outcomes were assessed pre- and post-intervention using validated measures: the Los Angeles Motor Scale (LAMS), the Iowa Oral Performance Instrument (IOPI), the MRC muscle scale, and standard blood pressure and visual acuity assessments. …”
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Seamless trials in oncology: A cross-sectional analysis of characteristics and reporting. by Katarzyna Klas, Karolina Strzebonska, Paola Buedo, Alicja Włodarczyk, Samuel Gordon, Paulina Kaszuba, Maciej Polak, Marcin Waligora

“…Using the ClinicalTrials.gov registry, we searched for interventional cancer clinical trials with primary completion date (PCD) between 2016 and 2020. …”
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Study on delay factors and time to hospital arrival after acute stroke in patients at Shahid Rajaei hospital, Tonekabon (2022–2023) by Mohadeseh Farokhfar, Mohamad Saleh Pezeshki Almani

“…This study aims to identify the primary causes of pre-hospital delays in acute stroke patients and provide actionable insights to enhance timely intervention strategies, ultimately improving patient outcomes. …”
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Problem-based training improves recognition of patient hazards by advanced medical students during chart review: a randomized controlled crossover study. by Friederike Holderried, Daniel Heine, Robert Wagner, Moritz Mahling, Yelena Fenik, Anne Herrmann-Werner, Reimer Riessen, Peter Weyrich, Stephan Zipfel, Nora Celebi

“…One group (IC) received a patient chart review-training first and then a control-intervention and the other group (CI) received the control-intervention first and then the patient chart review-training. …”
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Leverage points to improve smoking cessation treatment in a large tertiary care hospital: a systems-based mixed methods study by Alex T Ramsey, Donna Prentice, Ellis Ballard, Li-Shiun Chen, Laura J Bierut

“…Patients reported significantly lower rates of receiving any smoking cessation interventions, compared with provider reports (mean difference=17.4%–33.7%, p&lt;0.001). …”
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Comparative outcomes of inpatients with lung collapse managed by bronchoscopic or conservative means by Muhammad Adrish, Omesh Gopal Toolsie, Syed Arsalan Akhter Zaidi, Gilda Diaz-Fuentes

“…Judicious use of conservative management is warranted to avoid missing significant pathology. A prime consideration in this setting is obstructive malignancy.…”
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Psychological Network Analysis for Risk and Protective Factors of Problematic Social Media Use by Suzan M. Doornwaard, Vladimir Hazeleger, Ina M. Koning, Albert Ali Salah, Sven Vos, Regina J. J. M. van den Eijnden

“…Logistic regression showed that fear of missing out, impulsivity, depressive symptoms, intensity of meeting with friends, and reactive parental rules uniquely predicted at-risk/problematic use. …”
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Adverse childhood experiences and 10-year depressive-symptoms trajectories among middle-aged and older adults in China: a population-based cohort study by Jin Xu, Guangxue Han, Xiulian Xu, Xiulian Xu

“…The significance of a life-course intervention plan to prevent childhood adversity and the related mental health damage in later life is demonstrated by the long-term influence of ACEs on depressive symptoms.…”
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