Conversion From Subcutaneous to Intravenous Erythropoietin in a Hemodialysis Population
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to compare erythropoietin dosage requirements during subcutaneous versus intravenous administration in a hemodialysis population. Hemodialysis patients receiving subcutaneous epoetin alfa were switched to the intravenous route using a prospective, crossover design. Baseline anemia parameters were measured at months -2, -1, and 0 when patients were receiving subcutaneous dosing and compared to months 4, 5, and 6 after the switch to intravenous dosing. Ninety-eight patients were enrolled into the study with an average age of 54.8 years. Over the course of the study, 34 patients were excluded from analysis, leaving 64 patients with complete hemoglobin and erythropoietin dosing data throughout the subcutaneous and intravenous evaluation periods. In these patients, the dose of erythropoietin increased significantly from the subcutaneous to the intravenous period (7567.7 to 10229.2 IU/wk). The conversion of hemodialysis patients from the subcutaneous to the intravenous route of administration significantly increased epoetin alfa dosage requirements.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 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 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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.
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 teacher head, 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".