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Whose duty of care? (in an epidemic)

2008· letter· en· W2008037063 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
John B. Davies

Bibliographic record

VenueAnaesthesia · 2008
Typeletter
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicDisaster Response and Management
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineDutyHealth careMedical emergencyBattleWork (physics)Personal protective equipmentIntensivistIntensive careCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)LawIntensive care medicine

Abstract

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Dr Gardiner [1] did not discuss the duty of care of those who can do most to protect us in an infective epidemic: our employers. Not to use available protection would, as he says, be a suicide mission. Our military commanders are already criticised for not providing protective equipment to soldiers in the field. It is equally wrong, both ethically and pragmatically, to deny protection those fighting a medical battle. Despite electricity grid failures being rare, hospitals in the UK have generators that are expensive to provide and to maintain, and they are regularly tested. However, I know of no hospital that has any equipment to protect staff from infection to the level recommended by the Toronto team [2], let alone practices its use regularly. Half of the 267 people admitted at Toronto with suspected Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome were health workers, including three anaesthetists and an intensivist. Twenty-one people died. Not to protect such people endangers an essential hospital asset and the lives of its employees, and is a failure of the employers’ duty of care, ‘to ensure, as far as possible, your health, safety and welfare while you’re at work’ [3].

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

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)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: Commentary
Teacher disagreement score0.379
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.069
GPT teacher head0.398
Teacher spread0.328 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreCommentary

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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