Periodic telephone counselling for polypharmacy improved compliance and reduced mortality
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Wu JY, Leung WY, Chang S, et al . Effectiveness of telephone counselling by a pharmacist in reducing mortality in patients receiving polypharmacy: randomised controlled trial. BMJ 2006;333:522. [OpenUrl][1][Abstract/FREE Full Text][2] Q In patients receiving polypharmacy, does periodic telephone counselling by a pharmacist improve compliance and reduce mortality? Clinical impact ratings GP/FP/Primary care ★★★★★☆☆ Internal Medicine ★★★★★☆☆ ### ![Graphic][3]</img>Design: randomised controlled trial. ### ![Graphic][4]</img>Allocation: {concealed*}†. ### ![Graphic][5]</img>Blinding: {unblinded}†.* ### ![Graphic][6]</img>Follow up period: 2 years or until death (mean 23.2 mo). ### ![Graphic][7]</img>Setting: specialist medical clinics in the Prince of Wales Hospital in Hong Kong, China. ### ![Graphic][8]</img>Patients: patients who were prescribed ⩾5 drugs on ⩾2 consecutive clinic visits were assessed for compliance with the drug regimen. 442 patients 34–96 years of age (mean age 71y, 51% women) who were non-compliant enrolled in the study 12–16 weeks later. Patients were excluded if they received supervised treatment in nursing homes, were deaf or mute, had dementia or other psychological disorders, or spoke non-Cantonese dialects or other languages. ### ![Graphic][9]</img>Intervention: telephone intervention (n = 219) or no … [1]: {openurl}?query=rft.jtitle%253DBMJ%26rft_id%253Dinfo%253Adoi%252F10.1136%252Fbmj.38905.447118.2F%26rft_id%253Dinfo%253Apmid%252F16916809%26rft.genre%253Darticle%26rft_val_fmt%253Dinfo%253Aofi%252Ffmt%253Akev%253Amtx%253Ajournal%26ctx_ver%253DZ39.88-2004%26url_ver%253DZ39.88-2004%26url_ctx_fmt%253Dinfo%253Aofi%252Ffmt%253Akev%253Amtx%253Actx [2]: /lookup/ijlink?linkType=ABST&journalCode=bmj&resid=333/7567/522&atom=%2Febmed%2F12%2F1%2F22.atom [3]: /embed/inline-graphic-1.gif [4]: /embed/inline-graphic-2.gif [5]: /embed/inline-graphic-3.gif [6]: /embed/inline-graphic-4.gif [7]: /embed/inline-graphic-5.gif [8]: /embed/inline-graphic-6.gif [9]: /embed/inline-graphic-7.gif
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Direct model labels (unvalidated)
Per-model category and study-design labels from the labeling rounds. They are machine output, unvalidated, and the disagreement between models ships as data. No study design here is MEDLINE-validated yet.
| Model arm | Categories | Study design | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| gemma | no category Domain: not available · Genre: Empirical About the Canadian research system: no · About a Canadian topic: no | Observational | low |
| gpt | no category Domain: not available · Genre: Empirical About the Canadian research system: no · About a Canadian topic: no | Randomized trial | low |
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 | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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, unvalidatedLabeled directly by 2 models reading the full record.
The models disagree on parts of this classification; every voice is preserved in the section at the end of the page.
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".