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Addressing health disparities using multiply imputed injury surveillance data
BackgroundAssessing disparities in injury is crucial for injury prevention and for evaluating injury prevention strategies, but efforts have been...
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Investigating Bias from Missing Data in an Electronic Health Records-Based Study of Weight Loss After Bariatric Surgery
PurposeMissing data is common in electronic health records (EHR)-based obesity research. To avoid bias, it is critical to understand mechanisms that...
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Identification of missing concepts in biomedical terminologies using sequence-based formal concept analysis
BackgroundAs biomedical knowledge is rapidly evolving, concept enrichment of biomedical terminologies is an active research area involving automatic...
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Missing the forest-plot for the trees
Systematic reviews and meta-analyses are methods increasingly used in biomedical research since their introduction in the 1970s. They serve to...
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Sleep Disturbance is Associated with Missing PrEP Doses Among Young Black Sexual Minority Men in The N2 study
PrEP uptake and adherence among young Black sexual minority men (YBSMM), has been sub-optimal. Multiple studies identified sleep as an important...
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A four-step strategy for handling missing outcome data in randomised trials affected by a pandemic
BackgroundThe coronavirus pandemic (Covid-19) presents a variety of challenges for ongoing clinical trials, including an inevitably higher rate of...
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Quality of vital event data for infant mortality estimation in prospective, population-based studies: an analysis of secondary data from Asia, Africa, and Latin America
IntroductionInfant and neonatal mortality estimates are typically derived from retrospective birth histories collected through surveys in countries...
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Is the Global Pandemic Driving Me Crazy? The Relationship Between Personality Traits, Fear of Missing Out, and Social Media Fatigue During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Nigeria
Individ uals’ psychological behaviors and fear of missing out are affected by the global pandemic. This study investigates how individual “Big...
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Updating mortality risk estimation in intensive care units from high-dimensional electronic health records with incomplete data
BackgroundThe risk of mortality in intensive care units (ICUs) is currently addressed by the implementation of scores using admission data. Their...
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Missing colorectal liver metastases: the surgical challenge
BackgroundNew chemotherapy schemes have allowed for a better radiological response of unresectable colorectal liver metastases, leading to an...
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The sex gap in bladder cancer survival — a missing link in bladder cancer care?
The differences in bladder cancer outcomes between the sexes has again been highlighted. Uncommon among cancers, bladder cancer outcomes are notably...
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How do quantitative studies involving people with dementia report experiences of standardised data collection? A narrative synthesis of NIHR published studies
BackgroundPeople with dementia are routinely included as research participants in trials and other quantitative studies in which they are invited to...
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Development of novel composite data quality scores to evaluate facility-level data quality in electronic data in Kenya: a nationwide retrospective cohort study
BackgroundIn this evaluation, we aim to strengthen Routine Health Information Systems (RHIS) through the digitization of data quality assessment...
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Factors predicting missing instruments in three cancer randomized clinical trials
PurposeMissing patient-reported outcome (PRO) data can seriously threaten the validity of randomized clinical trials (RCTs). Identifying which...
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Estimating and reporting treatment effects in clinical trials for weight management: using estimands to interpret effects of intercurrent events and missing data
In the approval process for new weight management therapies, regulators typically require estimates of effect size. Usually, as with other drug...
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Finding the missing many: improving Tuberculosis care in Kajiado county through active case finding and community approaches
BackgroundTuberculosis related deaths remain a priority globally. Despite advancements in TB care, access to quality care remains inequitable to the...
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Initiating a district-based public–private mix to overcome tuberculosis missing cases in Indonesia: readiness to engage
BackgroundDistrict-based public
– private mix (DPPM) is a variant of a relatively new PPM strategy of addressing missing cases in the tuberculosis...
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ROB-MEN: a tool to assess risk of bias due to missing evidence in network meta-analysis
BackgroundSelective outcome reporting and publication bias threaten the validity of systematic reviews and meta-analyses and can affect clinical...
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Assessing the collection and reporting of patient-reported outcome data in interventional cancer trials: a single institution, retrospective systematic evaluation
BackgroundTo understand our performance with respect to the collection and reporting of patient-reported outcome (PRO) measure (PROM) data, we...
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Comparison of Demographics: National Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Registry and Clinical Trials Data
ObjectiveTo characterize the participant demographics in the Pooled Resource Open-Access ALS Clinical Trials (PRO-ACT) database compared with the...