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Record W1984395883 · doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7371.980

Treating acute gouty arthritis with selective COX 2 inhibitors

2002· editorial· en· W1984395883 on OpenAlexaff
Adel G. Fam

Bibliographic record

VenueBMJ · 2002
Typeeditorial
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicGout, Hyperuricemia, Uric Acid
Canadian institutionsHealth Sciences CentreSunnybrook Health Science CentreUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineGoutColchicinePrednisoneMethylprednisolonePseudogoutInternal medicineSurgeryGastroenterology

Abstract

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Few arthritides are as painful, incapacitating, and stressful as a severe attack of acute gout, pseudogout, or calcific periarthritis. Successful treatment of these acute microcrystalline events depends on early use of an effective and safe anti-inflammatory drug in full dosage. The sooner such treatment is started the more rapid and complete the response. Treatment options include colchicine, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), and corticosteroids including adrenocorticotrophic hormone.1 Although colchicine is traditionally rooted in the treatment of acute gout, in recent years its use has declined steadily.1 Its drawbacks include slow onset of action, narrow ratio of benefit to toxicity, and reduced efficacy when used more than 24 hours after the an attack begins. Colchicine (0.6 mg orally every 2 hours, up to 4-6 mg/day) is now reserved for patients without renal, hepatic, or bone marrow disease, in whom the more effective NSAIDs are contraindicated or poorly tolerated. Intravenous colchicine is best avoided given its potential for serious toxicity, which potentially can result in myelosuppression, hepatic necrosis, renal failure, hypotension, seizures, and death. Intra-articular corticosteroids (for example, methylprednisolone acetate 5-25 mg per joint), systemic corticosteroids (oral prednisone 20 mg/day tapered off over 4-10 days, or intramuscular triamcinolone hexacetonide 60 mg/day, repeated …

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Editorial · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.013
Threshold uncertainty score0.042

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0130.005

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.

Opus teacher head0.007
GPT teacher head0.266
Teacher spread0.259 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEditorial

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".

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Published2002
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