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Record W2075058071 · doi:10.12968/bjcn.2002.7.5.10366

Tuberculosis:the silent epidemic

2002· article· en· W2075058071 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Alison While

Bibliographic record

VenueBritish Journal of Community Nursing · 2002
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicTuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineTuberculosisQuarter (Canadian coin)DiseaseIncidence (geometry)DemographyGerontologyHistoryPathology

Abstract

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Tuberculosis (TB) used to be a common cause of death in the UK, accounting for a quarter of all annual deaths in the 19th century. While the poor were most vulnerable to the disease, every stratum of society was affected, as witnessed by the suffering of the Brontë sisters and Keats among others. Improved social conditions and better nutrition helped to reduce the prevalence of TB, and the introduction of the BCG vaccine and successful antibiotic therapy reduced the incidence further. Indeed, in the 1970s some thought that there would be no TB at the millennium. However, following a steady decline in recent decades, there are now an increasing number of TB notifications in England and Wales. While most of the rise is accounted for by notifications in the London area, there has also been a significant rise in notifications in the South East and Trent. Three quarters of notifications relate to males, of whom the vast majority are aged 25–64 years. It is perhaps not surprising, therefore, that TB is ranked the fifth most important communicable disease by professionals and the fifth most important disease requiring further work (Horby et al, 2001).

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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)0.002
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: Review · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.011
Threshold uncertainty score0.035

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.010
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.003
Scholarly communication0.0050.007
Open science0.0010.004
Research integrity0.0050.006
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0110.004

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 head0.073
GPT teacher head0.351
Teacher spread0.277 · 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
GenreReview

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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