University of Missouri–Kansas City

Predictors of Sexual Aggression Intentions Among Sexual Minority Men: Exploring the Utility of Vignette Methodologies

Sexual violence (SV) is prevalent yet understudied among sexual minority men (SMM), leaving gaps in understanding perpetration risk. Experimental analogues are commonly used to examine SV perpetration among heterosexual samples, yet little to no research has examined whether thes...

This Group is Fire: Invisible Labor in a Successful, Coequitable Community College–University Transfer Partnership

In this critical case study, we explored invisible labor, work that is essential but essentially unrecognized, within a successful community college–university transfer partnership selected for its equitable characteristics. Our analysis of semi-structured interviews with eight p...

Optimizing Antibiotic Duration for Pneumonia and Sinusitis in the Pediatric Emergency Department

OBJECTIVE Updates to national and international guidelines now recommend shortening antibiotic durations to 3 to 5 days for uncomplicated community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) and 5 to 7 days for acute bacterial rhinosinusitis (ABRS). We aimed to increase the percentage of children...

Development of an Achievable Benchmarks of Care Report Card for Pediatric Hospital Medicine

OBJECTIVES: To develop an Achievable Benchmarks of Care (ABCs) report card for common conditions managed by pediatric hospital medicine (PHM). METHODS: We performed a retrospective cross-sectional study of encounters for 13 common pediatric conditions between January 1, 2023, and...

Daily Workload and Evening Detachment: Impact of Supervisor Support for Recovery

Our study examines the role of leaders in employee recovery. We hypothesize that supervisor support for recovery (between-person) will buffer the impact of daily workload (within-person) on evening psychological detachment (within-person). We tested this hypothesis with a 7-day e...

The structural dynamics and molecular coupling in the slow inactivation of a prokaryotic voltage-gated sodium channel

Slow inactivation in voltage-gated sodium channels (Navs) is crucial for regulating cell excitability. Many studies indicate that the selectivity filter (SF) serves as the inactivation gate, but the structural mechanism and coupling between the distal primary and inactivation gat...

Disparities in Reporting of Violent Events by Patients at a US Children’s Hospital

BACKGROUND: Violence toward health care workers is increasing, yet patient risk factors for having a reported violent event (VE) are unknown. Understanding patient risk factors associated with reported VEs is needed to inform equitable approaches to VE reporting and guide resourc...

Clinical Practice Guideline for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Urinary Tract Infection in Children From 8 Days to 5 Years of Age

Urinary tract infection (UTI) is one of the most common bacterial infections in infants and young children, with a prevalence of 7% in infants with fever. This clinical practice guideline (CPG) provides an update of the literature and clinical recommendations of the 2011 American...

Urinary Tract Infection Diagnosis—A Companion to the American Academy of Pediatrics’ 2026 Clinical Practice Guideline on the Diagnosis and Management of Urinary Tract Infection: Technical Report

Accurate diagnosis is essential to appropriate care. Although urinary tract infection (UTI) is one of the most common bacterial infections in children, there is no gold standard for its diagnosis. During the American Academy of Pediatrics' revision of its Clinical Practice Guidel...

Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion Versus Total Disc Replacement with a Viscoelastic Prosthesis for Single-Level Lumbar Degenerative Disc Disease in Young Adults: A Comparative Retrospective Cohort Study

Background/Objectives: The optimal surgical approach for patients with lumbar degenerative disc disease (DDD) remains a subject of ongoing debate, particularly when comparing anterior lumbar interbody fusion (ALIF) and total disc replacement (TDR). The primary objective of this s...

Promoting Health Equity Through Tax-Funded Zero-Fare Public Transit: A Survey of Voters From Kansas City, MO

Public transportation has positive impacts for both individual and community health, but funding and scalability are political challenges. Understanding civic processes, such as voting, is key to advancing health equity through large-scale policy change. The purpose of this study...

Shopping centre investment regimes, resilience and returns Part I: the fundamentals of the market

Purpose The article is Part I of a two-part series that investigates the limitations of conventional analysis of shopping centre investment performance and suggests how a time dependent period/regime framework can provide more accurate and reliable measures. Design/methodology/ap...

Clinical Documentation Completeness in Orofacial Cleft Care Across High-Resource and Surgical Mission Settings: A Cross-Sectional Study

Objective To compare documentation completeness between preoperative records for children with orofacial cleft treated at a high-resource U.S. pediatric center and an itinerant surgical mission program. Design Cross-sectional analysis of a previously published, harmonized 2-cohor...

Clinical Practice Audit of 60-day Temporary Peripheral Nerve Stimulation

OBJECTIVE: To prospectively evaluate pain relief and functional outcomes through 14 months after 60-day percutaneous peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS) in a consecutive real-world cohort. DESIGN: Prospective single-center observational cohort study of 102 consecutive patients imp...

Inpatient Dermatology and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases: Measles, Varicella, and Beyond

Abstract Purpose of Review Re-emerging infectious diseases are increasingly encountered in the inpatient setting and are important to recognize due to their transmissibility as well as their potential for morbidity and mortality. Inpatient dermatologists are well positioned to re...

Hunting for microsatellite instability in long-read data with Owl

Abstract Microsatellite instability (MSI) is a key biomarker of mismatch repair deficiency and response to immunotherapy, yet most existing genomic detection methods are optimized for short-read sequencing and rely on small panels of homopolymer markers, limiting the ability to c...

Catalytic and computational strategies for removing ECs from agricultural water systems

Emerging contaminants (ECs), including pharmaceuticals, pesticides, endocrine-disrupting compounds, and personal care products, have become increasingly prevalent in agricultural water systems due to intensified agricultural activities and expanding chemical usage. Their persiste...

Remote Monitoring Devices and Heart Failure.

Remote patient monitoring (RPM) in patients with heart failure (HF) involves transmitting physiological data from devices to a health-care provider via a wireless connection with targeted interventions when values exceed the preset threshold. Devices used in telemonitoring range...

Patient‐Specific Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling of Airway Collapse in Infants With Robin Sequence

ABSTRACT Robin Sequence (RS) is a congenital condition in which patients experience dynamic, periodic obstruction or collapse of the upper airway due to an underdeveloped jaw and a posteriorly displaced tongue. Current clinical techniques for evaluating airway obstruction do not...

Effect of Perioperative Tranexamic Acid on Blood Loss in Posterior Acetabular Fracture Fixation

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the impact of perioperative intravenous (IV) tranexamic acid (TXA) on total blood loss (TBL) and transfusion requirements in patients who underwent acetabular fracture fixation (AO/OTA 62) via a posterior surgical approach. The authors hypothesized that pat...