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Record W2079542132 · doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7298.1320

<i>BMJ</i> bans “accidents”

2001· editorial· en· W2079542132 on OpenAlexaff
Ronald M. Davis

Bibliographic record

VenueBMJ · 2001
Typeeditorial
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicInjury Epidemiology and Prevention
Canadian institutionsMontreal Children's Hospital
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAccident (philosophy)CrashMedical emergencyOccupational safety and healthTraffic accidentMedicineCriminologyForensic engineeringLawPsychologyPolitical scienceEngineeringComputer science

Abstract

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For many years safety officials and public health authorities have discouraged use of the word “accident” when it refers to injuries or the events that produce them. An accident is often understood to be unpredictable—a chance occurrence or an “act of God”—and therefore unavoidable. However, most injuries and their precipitating events are predictable and preventable.1–3 That is why the BMJ has decided to ban the word accident. In an editorial in the BMJ in 1993 Evans explained why “motor vehicle crash” is an appropriate expression but “motor vehicle accident” is not: “The word crash indicates in a simple factual way what is observed, while accident seems to suggest in addition a general explanation of why it occurred without any evidence to support such an explanation.”4 Evans also argued that “accident” is inappropriate in reference to medical errors (as in medical accidents) and that “its use in medical settings continues to mislead.”4 Eight years later “accident” continues to be misused in medical circles—and on the pages of the BMJ . An online search for “accident” in the BMJ for the period January 1996 to December 2000 indicated that it has been used in the title or …

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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)0.013
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.083
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: Editorial · Consensus signal: Editorial
Teacher disagreement score0.063
Threshold uncertainty score0.210

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0130.083
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0040.002
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0040.003
Bibliometrics0.0060.004
Science and technology studies0.0040.005
Scholarly communication0.0080.006
Open science0.0040.002
Research integrity0.0200.020
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0630.089

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 head0.022
GPT teacher head0.391
Teacher spread0.369 · 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
GenreEditorial

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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Citations150
Published2001
Admission routes1
Has abstractyes

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