Pathways to (specialized) care: patient costs and contacts en route to a first‐episode psychosis clinic
Bibliographic record
Abstract
AIM: To estimate the public health costs of specific help-seeking pathways into an early intervention psychosis clinic. METHODS: The sequence of police, emergency and mental health contacts utilized by 50 patients up to 1 year prior to admission was characterized using chart reviews and structured interviews. Cost estimates for contacts were obtained from provincial health/public service cost reports. RESULTS: A high-cost inpatient pathway and a low-cost outpatient pathway were identified, with the former exceeding the latter by a factor of 18.5 in cost. This discrepancy was attributable to both the high cost of inpatient services and the long duration of inpatient admissions, as well as more frequent inpatient use of high-cost urgent services (e.g. police, emergency services). CONCLUSION: Given the substantial cost differential between inpatient and outpatient routes, additional clarification of modifiable factors that determine pathways to care could have significant implications to health service delivery costs for this population.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.002 |
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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".