Patient education initiatives at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College
Bibliographic record
Abstract
One of the important roles of health care professionals is to serve as educators for their patients. Ideally, patient education should take place throughout the life of the doctor-patient relationship.1 Initially, this occurs with the resume and report of findings when information regarding diagnosis, causation, and natural history is presented and discussed with the patient as an important part of the process involved in obtaining informed consent for treatment. 1 Ohnmeiss DD. The role of education in the treatment of back pain. in: Rehabilitation of the spine: science and practice. Mosby Year Book, St Louis1993 Google Scholar , 2 Clinical guidelines for chiropractic practice in Canada. Canadian Chiropractic Association, Toronto1994 Google Scholar The doctor teaches the patient how to help himself or herself return to a state of wellness and how to minimize the frequency and severity of symptoms. 1 Ohnmeiss DD. The role of education in the treatment of back pain. in: Rehabilitation of the spine: science and practice. Mosby Year Book, St Louis1993 Google Scholar , 3 Cox JM Patient benefits of attending a chiropractic low back wellness clinic. J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 1994; 17: 25-28 Google Scholar Doctors may also undertake patient education activities when counseling patients on many concerns, including, but not limited to, lifestyle changes, nutrition, stress management, and postural corrections. Chiropractors can be particularly effective in providing quality education to their patients. 3 Cox JM Patient benefits of attending a chiropractic low back wellness clinic. J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 1994; 17: 25-28 Google Scholar , 4 Vernon HT Piccininni J Kopansky-Giles D Hagino C Fuligni S Chiropractic rehabilitation of spinal pain patients: principles, practices and outcome data. J Can Chiropr Assoc. 1995; 39: 147-153 Google Scholar Historically, chiropractors have been rated as more effective educators when compared with other health care providers on patient satisfaction surveys. 5 Vernon HT Chiropractic: a model of incorporating the illness behaviour model in the management of low back pain patients. J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 1991; 14: 379-389 Google Scholar
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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 | 0.006 | 0.010 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.016 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.010 |
| Research integrity | 0.008 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.167 | 0.011 |
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".