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Record W2019070760 · doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7376.1364/a

CONSORT statement requires closer examination

2002· letter· en· W2019070760 on OpenAlexaff
Douglas G. Altman

Bibliographic record

VenueBMJ · 2002
Typeletter
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicHealth Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
Canadian institutionsChildren's Hospital of Eastern Ontario
Fundersnot available
KeywordsStatement (logic)Absolute (philosophy)SentenceNumber needed to treatAbsolute risk reductionConsolidated Standards of Reporting TrialsHarmRelative riskMedicinePsychologyActuarial sciencePolitical sciencePhilosophyAlternative medicineBusinessLawEpistemologyEnvironmental healthSocial psychologyLinguisticsPathologyConfidence intervalInternal medicine

Abstract

EDITOR—Several correspondents have criticised the HOPE investigators for focusing on relative effects when the absolute benefit was very small. Twisselmann, in her summary of many responses on the website, comments: “It was noted that only the relative risk reduction was given in the study. This should have been accompanied by data on absolute risk reduction and number needed to treat and even number needed to harm (as per CONSORT guidelines).”1 This sentence may …

Stored with the screening record, where it is evidence for the labels above.

How this classification was reachedexpand

The three-model screen

all 5,600 screened works →

All three models called this out of scope.

stratum: aff_core · design weight: 5595.24 (the sample is stratified; any rate computed without the weight is wrong)
Claude Opus 4.8T3 · adjacent, not in scope
genre: editorial/commentary
about Canada: no
confidence: high

Letter to the editor arguing about how CONSORT reporting guidance is applied; commentary about research reporting practice, not a study of it.

GPT-5.6 (high)T3 · adjacent, not in scope
genre: editorial/commentary
about Canada: no
confidence: high

This letter comments on CONSORT reporting guidance and research reporting practice.

Grok 4.5T3 · adjacent, not in scope
genre: editorial/commentary
about Canada: no
confidence: high

Letter discussing CONSORT trial-reporting guidance, commentary on research reporting rather than empirical metaresearch.

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)0.273
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.548
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: Reporting · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: Commentary
Teacher disagreement score0.727
Threshold uncertainty score0.000

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.2730.548
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.003
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0070.008
Bibliometrics0.0050.006
Science and technology studies0.0060.010
Scholarly communication0.0120.009
Open science0.0090.004
Research integrity0.0700.079
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0190.027

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 head0.512
GPT teacher head0.461
Teacher spread0.051 · 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.

Study designNot applicable
DomainReporting
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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Citations7
Published2002
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