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Record W2038281990 · doi:10.1136/ip.2010.029215.579

Making good samaritans skilled Samaritans

2010· article· en· W2038281990 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Ronald G. Evens

Bibliographic record

VenueInjury Prevention · 2010
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicDisaster Response and Management
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsFirst aidLegislatureQuarter (Canadian coin)PopulationNothingLawPublic relationsMedical emergencyPolitical sciencePsychologyBusinessMedicineHistoryEnvironmental health

Abstract

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Many countries around the world have what is known as a Good Samaritan Law, protecting the rights of those citizens that go out of their way to help those in need, most commonly in emergency situations. This protection may well be a step in the right direction, but does not address the fundamental issue of first aid knowledge. If more people were trained in this life-saving skill, businesses and the general public would have greater confidence in knowing that valuable help was at hand. Up to 150 000 people die each year in situations where first aid may have made the difference – four times the number who die each year from the biggest cause of cancer or the equivalent of the entire population of Basingstoke. Our research found that almost two thirds of the general public wouldnt feel confident in administering first aid in an emergency. Even more disturbingly, a quarter would stand by and do nothing, hoping that someone else knows first aid. In spite of these alarming statistics, the UK like many other countries is still guilty of treating first aid as a legislative requirement, rather than a necessary life skill. In communities where medical services might not be easily available, a little first aid knowledge could go a long way. Richard Evens, commercial training director, St John Ambulance, will discuss the importance of first aid knowledge for citizens of all ages, giving examples of where these skills have made a difference between life and death.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

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)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.010
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.058
Threshold uncertainty score0.194

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.010
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0130.005
Scholarly communication0.0050.005
Open science0.0010.010
Research integrity0.0030.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0580.021

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 head0.061
GPT teacher head0.468
Teacher spread0.407 · 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.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
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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