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An hypothesis paper on practice environment and the provision of health care: Could hospital occupancy rates effect quality?

2000· article· en· W2048735780 on OpenAlexaff
Alan J. Forster, Peter Tugwell, Carl van Walraven

Bibliographic record

VenueJ Qual Clin Practice · 2000
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicHealthcare Quality and Management
Canadian institutionsInstitute for Clinical Evaluative SciencesUniversity of Ottawa
Fundersnot available
KeywordsOccupancyCausationContext (archaeology)Quality (philosophy)Health careMedicineEconomicsEngineering

Abstract

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This paper will explore whether hospital occupancy influences quality of care. It discusses the 'systems' theory of error causation in the context of adverse medical outcomes. It then relates how high occupancy rates may cause problems in hospital systems. The evidence relating to quality of care and occupancy is reviewed. Finally, a new method of studying this relationship using time series analysis is proposed. We conclude that the relationship requires further exploration since revealing 'system' problems may compel clinicians to expose problems medical errors.

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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)0.024
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.011
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.853
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0240.011
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
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 head0.072
GPT teacher head0.515
Teacher spread0.443 · 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.

Study designOther design
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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Citations9
Published2000
Admission routes1
Has abstractyes

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