Effects of a Pseudomonas aeruginosa eradication policy in a cystic fibrosis clinic
Bibliographic record
Abstract
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: This review is based upon the recent literature regarding eradication of newly acquired infection with Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Psa) in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) and the economic and other effects of such an early eradication policy in a CF clinic. RECENT FINDINGS: Various Psa eradication protocols which utilize intravenous or aerosol anti-pseudomonal antibiotics, with or without oral antibiotics, have been reported. The recent ELITE trial reported successful eradication of 90% of Psa in selected Psa antibody negative patients after 28 days of tobramycin for inhalation. Another recent report of a protocol based on intravenous antibiotic use reported elimination of 'first growth' Psa in over 96% of all patients, accompanied by decreased chronic Psa infection, decreased anti-Psa treatment costs and decreased hospitalization costs. SUMMARY: The effects of early eradication protocols for Psa have included decreased prevalence of chronic Psa infection, improved patient health and pulmonary function, and decreased hospital and antibiotic costs.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
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 teacher head, 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".