MS Patients Report Excellent Compliance with Oral Prednisone for Acute Relapses
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: Multiple Sclerosis is characterized by relapses separated by periods of relative quiescence. High dose intravenous corticosteroid pulses for three to five days is the current standard for the treatment of acute relapses, but recent evidence supports the use of equivalent doses of oral therapy as an alternative. The highest single dose preparation of oral prednisone is a 50mg tablet, requiring patients to take 25 tablets a day. Questions regarding compliance with this oral regimen have been raised. OBJECTIVES: To determine whether MS patients are complaint with 1,250 mg of oral prednisone daily for acute relapses. METHODS: Between November 2008 and December 2009, all patients diagnosed with an acute relapse in the London (Ontario) MS clinic were prospectively identified. If treatment with oral prednisone was initiated, subjects were given a survey to be mailed anonymously to the clinic. RESULTS: Sixty eight MS relapses were diagnosed and treated with corticosteroids in 66 patients of which 60 (58 subjects) were treated with 1,250 mg prednisone. Fifty-three (91.4%) surveys were returned. The reported compliance rate was high at 94.3% (50/53) with only one patient reporting being unable to take all the required pills due to intolerance. Most subjects (43, 86.0%) encountered at least one side effect, most commonly insomnia, mood changes and increased appetite. Two thirds of subjects (69.8%) indicated a preference for oral medication for future relapses. CONCLUSION: High dose (1,250 mg) oral prednisone is an acceptable therapy to MS patients for the treatment of acute relapses with a high rate of compliance.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
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.
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".