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Guideline for the primary care management of male lower urinary tract symptoms

2004· article· en· W1583264770 on OpenAlex
Mark Speakman, Roger Kirby, A.D. Joyce, Paul Abrams, Richard Pocock

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Bibliographic record

VenueBritish Journal of Urology · 2004
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicUrinary Bladder and Prostate Research
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNocturiaGuidelineMedicineProstatitisPrimary careFinasterideLower urinary tract symptomsRandomized controlled trialGrading (engineering)Urinary systemIntensive care medicinePlaceboOveractive bladderGynecologyInternal medicineUrologyPhysical therapyAlternative medicineFamily medicineProstatePathology

Abstract

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As my Comment in the first section of the journal suggested, the MTOPS results have offered the possibility to general practitioners of reducing the risk of side‐effects of BPH, particularly urinary retention, by giving patients dual therapy with 5α‐reductase inhibitor and alpha‐adrenergic blocker. Authors from the UK present guidelines for the primary case management of male LUTS, which significantly fills this gap in the literature. Any help in the management of chronic nonbacterial prostatitis is welcome to clinicians; many treatments have been proposed after non‐comparative trials, and so their value must be viewed cautiously. The authors from Canada and USA present the results of a randomized placebo‐controlled study into the use of finasteride in such patients. The other papers in this section all deal with LUTS, e.g. frequency and nocturia, in a variety of situations. There is still great interest in the epidemiology of these symptoms, and in the various methods of grading their severity.

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.847
Threshold uncertainty score0.273

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.017
GPT teacher head0.302
Teacher spread0.285 · 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