Equity in action: a scoping review and meta-framework for embedding equity in quality improvement.

Background: There are increasing efforts to include equity in all quality improvement (QI) initiatives. A comprehensive framework to embed equity in QI has been lacking, which acts as a barrier to the QI community from taking action to reduce healthcare inequities.

Objectives: The objectives of this scoping review were to: (1) map and summarise available equity frameworks for QI and (2) create a 'meta-framework' for QI leaders and practitioners, with engagement of people with lived experience of health inequities.

Neuropsychiatric symptoms cluster and fluctuate over time in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia.

Aim: Cognitive and behavioral phenomena define behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), but neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) outside the core criteria are common throughout the illness. Identifying how NPS cluster in bvFTD may guide development of future therapies.

Methods: Participants (n = 354) with sporadic and genetic bvFTD were enrolled in the ARTFL LEFFTDS Longitudinal Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration Consortium.

Associations between social-network characteristics and postpartum health behaviors and weight among a sample of women who were overweight/obese pre-pregnancy.

Background: Retention of weight postpartum increases risk for long-term morbidity, including cardiometabolic disease. Although retained weight postpartum is a complex problem, interventions generally address individual diet and activity behaviors.

Objectives: We investigated the impact of social-network factors on postpartum health behaviors and weight.

Transposon mutagenesis identifies acid resistance and biofilm genes as Shigella sonnei virulence factors in Caenorhabditis elegans infection.

Identifying essential genes in bacterial pathogens during infection can enhance knowledge and provide novel targets for antimicrobial agents' development. Currently, only Shigella flexneri essential genes during in vitro growth have been experimentally identified. This study used transposon insertion sequencing (TIS) to identify Shigella sonnei essential genes during Caenorhabditis elegans infection.