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Record W1995597793 · doi:10.4176/080721

Hemodialysis Patients: A High Risk Group for Hepatitis C

2008· article· en· W1995597793 on OpenAlex
AH Omar, K Ashawesh

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Bibliographic record

VenueLibyan Journal of Medicine · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicHepatitis C virus research
Canadian institutionsOttawa Hospital
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineHemodialysisHepatitis CPopulationDiseaseHepatitis C virusPrevalencePediatricsFamily medicineDemographyInternal medicineEnvironmental healthImmunologyVirus

Abstract

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To The Editor: We commend Alashek et al for their excellent article [1]. However, the authors did not clarify why a very important high risk group was left out of their study, that of hemodialysis (HD) patients. Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) infection has been shown to be more prevalent among HD patients in developing countries. Hepatitis C prominently increases the burden of disease in the HD population. Furthermore, the longer patients are on HD, the more susceptible they are to HCV acquisition [2]. More importantly in Libya, HD patients seem to have a higher prevalence of the disease compared to other more developed regions. Research from Libya on this issue although scant, is available, as evident by a relatively recent publication on the matter, a study by Daw et al, conducted in Tripoli from 1999 to 2001 [3]. The study showed a 20.5% prevalence of HCV among HD patients, which is of similar prevalence to neighbouring Tunisia, and seems to be better than some of the gulf countries, where a higher sero-prevalence rate seems to exist within this patient group [2]. This percentage is still unacceptable, as emphasized when compared to the CDC's data which states that the prevalence of hepatitis C in this population averages 10%, any thing above clearly outlines flaws in the HD service [4]. Health care systems that employ strict adherence to universal preventive measures during HD have a low prevalence of HCV among their patients; an example of this is that the UK has a 4% prevalence of HCV among HD patients [2]. Hemodialysis should not be a one-way street to acquiring a blood borne viral infection and unless clinical practice is changed to avoid infection risk, the overall disease burden for this group will only increase to their detriment. The current sero-prevalence status of HD patients in Libya needs to be studied and updated. We hope Alashek et al continue in their excellent work, and we recommend that the HD patient group in Libya is studied further, and any particular flaws in the provision of their care is identified and rectified.

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Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.090
Threshold uncertainty score0.569

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.026
GPT teacher head0.295
Teacher spread0.269 · 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