Bibliographic record
Abstract
Tom Trauer passed away on the 10 July 2013 and will be greatly missed across Australia and around the world. Tom was a leading researcher in psychiatric outcome measurement and advocate for mental health service development, and had expanded his research interests in recent years to include the mental health of caregivers, the terminally ill and patients with cancer. Tom was born in Manchester on 10 November 1944, after his family fled Eastern Europe during the Second World War. His family moved from the UK to Adelaide in 1949, where his father repeated his medical degree to practise in Australia. Eventually settling in Melbourne, Tom attended Brighton Grammar, before completing his Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Psychology at Melbourne University, where he met his future wife Barbara. Returning to London in 1971, Tom completed his PhD on ‘Deviant Behaviour among Patients in a Therapeutic Community’ at King's College. While in the UK, he married, had two sons and went on to positions as senior clinical psychologist and honorary lecturer at Guy's Hospital. He subsequently took a management role in the Camberwell Health Authority and became head of the Psychology Department at King's College. On returning to Australia in 1989, Tom worked as a senior psychologist in Victorian public mental health services at Mont Park and Larundel Hospitals, before increasingly focusing on research through the 1990s. By the time of his death, he was a professorial fellow at the University of Melbourne, an honorary professor at Monash University and a visiting professorial fellow at the University of Wollongong. His 2010 edited book, “Outcome Measurement in Mental Health, Theory and Practice” and his many peer-reviewed articles on outcome measurement advanced the primary field of his research, while his work with colleagues in Australia and the Asia Pacific region led to numerous collaborations to improve mental health service delivery. His interest in therapeutic communities and the role of caregivers and family members in mental health care, led naturally to collaboration on research into the psychiatric needs of palliative patients. Working from St Vincent's Hospital, Tom was able to collaborate on many projects with the co-located Centre for Palliative Care and with other palliative and oncology care providers. Tom was generous with his time and frequently supported junior researchers, providing patient advice and assistance with statistical analysis. His passion for teaching led to university lecturing, research supervision, clinical teaching and coordination of the statistics component of Melbourne University's Master of Psychological Medicine degree. His increasingly prodigious output included two books and around 200 peer-reviewed publications, of which he was the primary author for nearly half. Tom's interest in service development and evaluation led to extensive involvement with the Mental Health Services Conference of Australia and New Zealand, of which he had been an active participant or a committee member since its inception in 1991. The Mental Health Services Conference will provide an award in Tom's name to support service evaluation from 2014 onwards. His expertise in this area also led to travel to countries including China, Qatar, Laos, Vietnam, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Canada, Israel, England and China, and he was a member of the Schizophrenia Protocol Development Group in Scotland. Tom will be remembered for his generosity, collaborative nature, pioneering research and interest in the health of disadvantaged and under-serviced groups. He died on 10 July 2013 after a short illness and is survived by his wife Barbara and sons James and Michael. The Thomas Trauer Fund has been established through St Vincent's Foundation to support the development of mental health services in the Asia Pacific. Donations can be made at www.stvfoundation.org.au specifying that the donation is for the Thomas Trauer Fund.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.022 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.012 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.055 | 0.045 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".