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Record W1573843259 · doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7338.656

Recent developments: Recent developments in neurology

2002· review· en· W1573843259 on OpenAlexaff
Samuel Wiebe

Bibliographic record

VenueBMJ · 2002
Typereview
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicNeurological and metabolic disorders
Canadian institutionsWestern University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineStroke (engine)NeurologyIntensive care medicineThrombolysisAtrial fibrillationCarotid endarterectomyEpilepsyNeuroradiologyStenosisCardiologyMyocardial infarctionPsychiatry

Abstract

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Neurology has evolved from a rich, descriptive discipline to one with many diagnostic and therapeutic options supported by an increasingly robust evidence base. This review looks at new evidence on the management of temporal lobe epilepsy, which shows that surgery can now prevent years of ineffective drug treatment and unnecessary disability. In stroke, simple clinical scales can accurately identify patients who will benefit most from evidence based treatments, although interventions of proved efficacy and safety continue to be underused. In dementia, while the promise of early preventive measures looms on the horizon, the clinical importance of available antidementia drugs continues to be investigated. Finally, the usefulness of the clinical neurological examination is being systematically analysed in specific conditions, such as migraine and carpal tunnel syndrome. #### Recent developments Patients with temporal lobe epilepsy should be considered for surgical treatment if more than two consecutive anticonvulsants fail to control the seizures The risk of stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation can be accurately predicted by the presence of risk factors such as congestive heart failure, hypertension, increased age, diabetes, and especially prior cerebral ischaemia Carotid endarterectomy for prevention of stroke in symptomatic carotid stenosis is more effective in patients aged over 75 than in younger patients Patients with ischaemic stroke who can be treated within three hours of onset should be considered for thrombolysis; larger strokes, as assessed with a simple computed tomography based scoring system, are less likely to be reversed Use of interferon for first demyelinating episodes may prevent progression to clinically definite multiple sclerosis Early corticosteroid treatment (within seven days of onset of symptoms) may be effective in Bell's palsy We identified important neurological advances by canvassing subspecialty neurologists, performing hierarchical literature searches with SUMSearch (SUMSearch.UTHSCSA.edu/searchform4.htm), and reviewing medical collections such as bmj.com (www.bmj.com/collections/), Lancet Neurology Network (www.lancetneuronet.com/journal), Bandolier (www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/), Health …

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.980
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.133
GPT teacher head0.379
Teacher spread0.246 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2002
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