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Clinical Experience and Quality of Health Care

2005· letter· en· W2046040607 on OpenAlexaffabout
Geoffrey R. Norman, Kevin W. Eva

Bibliographic record

VenueAnnals of Internal Medicine · 2005
Typeletter
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicHealthcare cost, quality, practices
Canadian institutionsMcMaster University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineGraduation (instrument)Health careMyocardial infarctionCertificationMortality rateFamily medicineSurgeryInternal medicineManagement

Abstract

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Letters5 July 2005Clinical Experience and Quality of Health CareGeoffrey R. Norman, PhD and Kevin W. Eva, PhDGeoffrey R. Norman, PhDFrom McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4L8, Canada.Search for more papers by this author and Kevin W. Eva, PhDFrom McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4L8, Canada.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-143-1-200507050-00018 SectionsAboutFull TextPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail TO THE EDITOR:The article by Choudhry and colleagues (1) showing a consistent negative relationship between experience and performance is controversial. Although few will be surprised that recent graduates do better on knowledge tests or are more likely to adhere to practice guidelines, the relationship to patient outcomes, particularly mortality, is much more difficult to dismiss. In particular, the single unequivocal study, by Norcini and colleagues (2), observed “a 0.5% increase in mortality for every year [since graduation].” Taken at face value, this is a terrifying statistic. If a recent graduate has a 10% in-hospital mortality rate, then someone who ...References1. Choudhry NK, Fletcher RH, Soumerai SB. Systematic review: the relationship between clinical experience and quality of health care. Ann Intern Med. 2005;142:260-73. [PMID: 15710959] LinkGoogle Scholar2. Norcini JJ, Kimball HR, Lipner RS. Certification and specialization: do they matter in the outcome of acute myocardial infarction? Acad Med. 2000;75:1193-8. [PMID: 11112721] CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar3. Norcini JJ, Lipner RS, Kimball HR. Certifying examination performance and patient outcomes following acute myocardial infarction. Med Educ. 2002;36:853-9. [PMID: 12354248] CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar4. Hartz AJ, Kuhn EM, Pulido J. Prestige of training programs and experience of bypass surgeons as factors in adjusted patient mortality rates. Med Care. 1999;37:93-103. [PMID: 10413397] CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: From McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4L8, Canada.Disclosures: None disclosed. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsSee AlsoSystematic Review: The Relationship between Clinical Experience and Quality of Health Care Niteesh K. Choudhry , Robert H. Fletcher , and Stephen B. Soumerai Clinical Experience and Quality of Health Care Elizabeth W. Loder Clinical Experience and Quality of Health Care Niteesh K. Choudhry , Robert H. Fletcher , and Stephen B. Soumerai Clinical Experience and Quality of Health CareClinical Experience and Quality of Health Care Martin A. Samuels and Allan H. Ropper Clinical Experience and Quality of Health Care Roy M. Poses and Joseph A. Diaz Clinical Experience and Quality of Health Care Ronald S. Szabo Metrics Cited ByAccepting Diagnostic Suggestions by Residents: A Potential Cause of Diagnostic Error in MedicineThe American College of Chest Physicians Evidence-Based Educational Guidelines for Continuing Medical Education InterventionsClinical Diagnostic Reasoning 5 July 2005Volume 143, Issue 1Page: 85-86KeywordsClimbingConflicts of interestDeath ratesGraduate medical educationHealth care qualityStatistical data ePublished: 5 July 2005 Issue Published: 5 July 2005 CopyrightCopyright © 2005 by American College of Physicians. All Rights Reserved.PDF DownloadLoading ...

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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)0.011
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.138
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: none
GenreCandidate signal: Editorial · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.031
Threshold uncertainty score0.104

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0110.138
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0030.004
Science and technology studies0.0020.002
Scholarly communication0.0070.003
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0310.002

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 head0.869
GPT teacher head0.716
Teacher spread0.153 · 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
GenreEditorial

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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