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Palliative Care: What Is It?

2001· article· en· W2016036123 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Maureen A. Williams, Mary S. Wheeler

Bibliographic record

VenueHome Healthcare Nurse · 2001
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicPalliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPalliative careNursingHealth careMedicinePsychologyPolitical science

Abstract

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Palliative care developed during the hospice movement. Hospice was associated as a rest place for weary travelers in ancient times, many of whom were ill. Hospice first became associated with the dying in France in 1842; the first modern hospice, St. Christopher's Hospice, was established in London by Dame Cicely Saunders in 1967. It was the first facility founded as a "place" to care for the dying. In 1974, the first U.S. hospice was established in Connecticut based on a home care model. In 1975, Balfour Mount, MD, founded the Palliative Care Service in The Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal; the concept of "palliative care" in North America was established (Sheehan & Forman, 1996). The traditional view of palliative care indicates that symptomatic and supportive care are generally withheld until all attempts to treat the underlying disease and other medical problems are exhausted. Many times, palliative care is offered with little time left for living. Palliative care should be considered in conjunction with active treatment, and, as death nears, palliative care becomes more important as active treatment while cure become less important.

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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 categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.691
Threshold uncertainty score0.839

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 science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
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 head0.174
GPT teacher head0.475
Teacher spread0.300 · 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.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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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Published2001
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