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Controversy concerning platelet dose

2007· article· en· W2078001819 on OpenAlexaff
Nancy M. Heddle

Bibliographic record

VenueISBT Science Series · 2007
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicBlood transfusion and management
Canadian institutionsMcMaster University
FundersNational Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
KeywordsMedicineRandomized controlled trialPlateletClinical trialPlatelet transfusionExternal validityIntensive care medicineInternal validityInternal medicinePsychologyPathology

Abstract

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The highest level of support for evidence based decisions is the randomized controlled trial (RCT); however, RCT results are only useful if the study has strong internal and external validity. There have been a number of clinical trials that have addressed the issue of the optimal platelet dose; however, none of these studies have provided definitive data on the optimal platelet dose due to a variety of methodological issues associated with the study designs. Currently two randomized controlled trials have been implemented to address the issue of optimal platelet dose. The results of these trials will not be available until 2007–2008. The BEST (Biomedical Excellence for Safer Transfusion) Collaborative has initiated a platelet dose study comparing the frequency of WHO bleeding Grade 2 with low and standard dose platelets. The Transfusion Medicine/ Haemostasis Clinical Trials Network (CTN) is also performing a platelet dose study comparing three treatment strategies (high, standard and low dose platelets). There were numerous methodological issues that had to be considered when designing these two studies. More recently some European investigators have questioned the need for prophylactic platelet transfusions and several studies are currently underway to investigate the efficacy of changing this practice.

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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)0.150
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.351
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: Commentary · Consensus signal: Commentary
Teacher disagreement score0.150
Threshold uncertainty score0.795

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.1500.351
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0040.003
Bibliometrics0.0020.003
Science and technology studies0.0020.014
Scholarly communication0.0080.011
Open science0.0070.005
Research integrity0.0160.024
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.002

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 head0.016
GPT teacher head0.290
Teacher spread0.273 · 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
GenreCommentary

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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Citations10
Published2007
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