Introducing the Sixth Edition of the <i>Canadian tuberculosis standards</i>
Bibliographic record
Abstract
T he sixth edition of the Canadian Tuberculosis Standards will soon be available in hard copy through the offices of the Canadian Lung Association (CLA), and the individual provincial and territorial lung associations, and in PDF format at .Historically, the Standards became important when effective treatment of tuberculosis became available and sanatoria closed.In contrast to the first (1972), second (1981), third (1988) and fourth (1996) editions, which were products of the Canadian Thoracic Society (CTS)/CLA alone, the fifth (2000) and sixth editions of the Standards were jointly produced by the CTS/CLA and Health Canada (fifth), and the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) (sixth).The evolution of the Standards as a document dependent on the CTS for medical and scientific input, and on the PHAC for public health and policy input, was part of a broader shift from nongovernmental to governmental organization of tuberculosis prevention and control activity in Canada. The Tuberculosis Prevention and ControlProgram of the PHAC is the sponsor of the Canadian Tuberculosis Committee, a national committee with representation from each province and territory, Citizenship and Immigration Canada, First Nations and Inuit Health Branch of Health Canada, Correctional Service Canada, Canadian Public Health Laboratory Network, Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease, CLA, CTS and PHAC (both the National Microbiology Laboratory and the Tuberculosis Prevention and Control Program).It also houses the Canadian Tuberculosis Surveillance System and the Canadian Tuberculosis Laboratory Surveillance System, as well as represents Canada internationally.The major role of the Tuberculosis Committee of the CTS is now the preparation of the Standards.In fact, the membership of the CTS Tuberculosis Committee and the editorial committee of the Standards are one and the same; the editors of the Standards are the Chair of the CTS Tuberculosis Committee and the Manager of the Tuberculosis Prevention and Control Program of the PHAC.The sixth edition of the Standards is a substantial revision to its predecessor the fifth edition (see below).Chapters or appendixes already in the fifth edition were redacted, and new chapters and appendixes were added (Chapters 14, 15 and 18; Appendixes D, E, F, G, H and J) after a systematic survey of end-user satisfaction with the fifth edition undertaken by the CTS.In addition to the chapter-specific table of contents and
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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 | 0.011 | 0.038 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.006 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.014 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.006 | 0.008 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.059 | 0.042 |
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".