Type III Tympanoplasties: The Sherbrooke Experience
Bibliographic record
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: To review short- and longer-term results of type III tympanoplasties as performed by the senior author and to compare these results with those reported in the literature. METHOD: Retrospective review of 96 type III tympanoplasties, with and without mastoidectomy, performed between April 1996 and August 2000. RESULTS: At a mean of 384 days postoperatively, 57.3% of patients had an air-bone gap of less than 20 dB. The average postoperative gap is 21.4 dB. Gap closure is best at 2000 Hz, with an average drop of 51% from initial value, compared with 34%, 39%, and 18% at 500, 1000, and 4000 Hz, respectively. CONCLUSION: Our results are similar to those published previously. We emphasize the improvement at 2000 Hz, which is an important frequency for speech discrimination. It would be interesting to see if it correlates with an improvement in quality of life.
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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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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 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".