How did New Zealand’s regional District Health Board groupings work to improve service integration and health outcomes: a realist evaluation by Robin Gauld, Rosalina Richards, Tim Stokes, Trudy Sullivan, Fiona Doolan-Noble, Andrew R Gray, Carol Atmore, Erin Penno, Lauralie Richard, Emma Wyeth, Brett Maclennan

“…We developed a generalised context-mechanisms-outcomes model, identifying key commonalities explaining how regional work ‘worked’ across NZ while noting important regional differences.Setting NZ’s four regional DHB groupings.Participants Forty-nine stakeholders from across the four regional groupings. …”
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Barriers to and enablers of the early diagnosis of breast cancer among women from ethnic minority backgrounds in the UK: protocol for a qualitative evidence synthesis by Nia Roberts, Toral Gathani, Shoba Dawson, S Shepperd, Priya Sajjad, Bep Dhaliwal

“…Introduction Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women of all ethnic groups in the UK. …”
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Behavioural and social drivers of COVID-19 vaccination in Vietnam: a scoping review by Jessica Kaufman, Thu Anh Nguyen, Margie Danchin, Mai Nguyen, Thao Nguyen, Tho Dang, Gregory Fox, Luong Tran, Isabella Overmars, Shiva Shrestha, Ikram Abdi, Muthu Marahajan, Trang Chu

“…Vietnam’s national COVID-19 vaccination programme resulted in high uptake of primary doses among adults, but lower booster doses for adults and primary doses for 5–11 years. …”
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Certification of a pharmacopoeial reference standard for potency testing of recombinant interferon α-2b by L. A. Gaiderova, Yu. N. Lebedeva, T. N. Lobanova, E. K. Lipatova, R. A. Volkova, O. V. Fadeikina

“…The availability of International Standards (ISs) that are commonly used to assess the quality of recombinant interferons is currently limited. …”
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Generative AI/LLMs for Plain Language Medical Information for Patients, Caregivers and General Public: Opportunities, Risks and Ethics by Pal A, Wangmo T, Bharadia T, Ahmed-Richards M, Bhanderi MB, Kachhadiya R, Allemann SS, Elger BS

“…Responses were reported to be reasonably accurate and sufficiently readable and detailed. The most commonly reported risks were oversimplification, over-generalization, lower accuracy in response to complex questions, and lack of transparency regarding information sources. …”
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Rapid tests to inform triage and antibiotic prescribing decisions for adults presenting with suspected acute respiratory infection: a rapid evidence synthesis of clinical effective... by Katie Scandrett, Jill Colquitt, Rachel Court, Fiona Whiter, Bethany Shinkins, Yemisi Takwoingi, Emma Loveman, Daniel Todkill, Paramjit Gill, Daniel Lasserson, Lena Al-Khudairy, Amy Grove, Yen-Fu Chen

“…Plain language summary Acute respiratory infection is a group of common diseases caused by viruses or bacteria. Examples of acute respiratory infections include ‘cold’ and flu. …”
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Utility of Administrative Databases and Big Data on Understanding Glioma Treatment—A Systematic Review by Monica-Rae Owens, Sarah Nguyen, Michael Karsy

“…., National Inpatient Sample [NIS], National Surgical Quality Improvement Program [NSQIP], and Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program [SEER], National Cancer Database [NCDB], and others). …”
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Prevalence of Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in Vologda Oblast Districts by N. Kh. Svanadze, R. A. Kasimov, A. A. Orlovsky, N. V. Lazareva

“…Both behavioral and biological CVD risk factors were more common in participants from rural municipalities. …”
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Metagenomic Analysis of Bacterial Communities in the Musi River Estuary, South Sumatra, Indonesia by Melki, Apon Zaenal Mustopa, Jeni Meiyerani, M. Zalfa Ramadhian, Anna Ida Sunaryo Purwiyanto, Wike Ayu Eka Putri, Hartoni

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Antibiotic treatment of honey bee colonies alters early gut microbiome assembly and induces persistent dysbiosis in newly emerged workers by Nathan O. Allen, Duan C. Copeland, Brendon M. Mott, Robert Erickson, Kirk E. Anderson

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Distance from human settlements favors wild‐type appearance of feral cats (Felis catus) in Mediterranean woodland by Shahar Dubiner, Itai Namir, Ron Chen, Eran Levin

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Acidovorax temperans skews neutrophil maturation and polarizes Th17 cells to promote lung adenocarcinoma development by Joshua K. Stone, Natalia von Muhlinen, Chenran Zhang, Ana I. Robles, Amy L. Flis, Eleazar Vega-Valle, Akihiko Miyanaga, Masaru Matsumoto, K. Leigh Greathouse, Tomer Cooks, Giorgio Trinchieri, Curtis C. Harris

“…These T17 cells shared a common gene expression program predictive of poor survival in human LUAD. …”
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The Herd Health Handbook for Goat Producers: Vaccination Protocol and Quality Assurance Measures for Goats by Ray Mobley, Carmen Lyttle-N’guessan, Thomas Peterson

“…FAMU004, a 9-page fact sheet by Ray Mobley, Carmen Lyttle-N'guessan, and Thomas Peterson, outlines a year-round preventive-based health maintenance program for goats, including schedules for vaccinations and anthelmintics, and common medications with approximate withdrawal times. …”
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The Herd Health Handbook for Goat Producers: Vaccination Protocol and Quality Assurance Measures for Goats by Ray Mobley, Carmen Lyttle-N’guessan, Thomas Peterson

“…FAMU004, a 9-page fact sheet by Ray Mobley, Carmen Lyttle-N'guessan, and Thomas Peterson, outlines a year-round preventive-based health maintenance program for goats, including schedules for vaccinations and anthelmintics, and common medications with approximate withdrawal times. …”
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ANALYSIS OF SAFETY OF NEOADJUVANT CHEMORADIOTHERAPY IN PATIENTS WITH LOCALLY ADVANCED GASTRIC CANCER (RESULTS OF A MULTICENTER RANDOMIZED TRIAL) by V. Yu. Skoropad, S. G. Afanasyev, S. V. Gamayunov, P. V. Sokolov, V. A. Karov, L. N. Titova, N. K. Silanteva, S. A. Ivanov, A. D. Kaprin

“…Grade 1–2 postoperative complications were the most common.…”
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Le tournant managérial dans le secteur public européen : quelles conséquences sur l’action publique ? by Christophe Nosbonne

“…The focus here will be on a common benchmark entitled new public management, featuring its own principles, values and objectives. …”
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REHABILITATION OF PATIENT WITH RHEUMATIC DISEASES AFTER ENDOPROSTHETICS OF BIG JOINTS by V. P. Pavlov, S A Makarov, G A Matushevskv, M A Makarov, L A Ageyeva

“…There are the common principals of the rehabilitation after knee and hip replacements in accordance with particularities of the corse and medical treatment for concrete forms of the rheumatic diseases. …”
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Les publications archéologiques : questions de rythme et de supports by Marie-Pierre Salès, Daniel Baloup

“…One of these specific aspects is the cost of field work and analysis of the material, which is the basis of sponsors’ demands as regards dissemination of findings; and another is the size of the programmes: these involve a large number of collaborators, whose work is hard to  direct into a common channel with a view to joint publication. …”
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We are going to join millions of unemployed graduates by Adeyemi Balogun

“… As part of the measures to deal with the rate of youth unemployment in Nigeria, entrepreneurship programmes were incorporated into the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme, which was initially meant to promote common national awareness among graduate youths. …”
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Working with missing data in large-scale assessments by Francis Huang, Brian Keller

“…Abstract Missing data are common with large scale assessments (LSAs). A typical approach to handling missing data with LSAs is the use of listwise deletion, despite decades of research showing that approach can be a suboptimal strategy resulting in biased estimates. …”
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