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Record W2094062849 · doi:10.1212/wnl.59.7.975

AAN clinical practice guidelines

2002· letter· nl· W2094062849 on OpenAlexaff
Gary M. Franklin, Catherine Zahn

Bibliographic record

VenueNeurology · 2002
Typeletter
Languagenl
FieldMedicine
TopicClinical practice guidelines implementation
Canadian institutionsWomen's College Hospital
Fundersnot available
KeywordsClinical PracticeMedicineFamily medicine

Abstract

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The American Academy of Neurology (AAN) has been a leader in developing clinical practice guidelines. Both the Quality Standards Subcommittee (QSS) and the Therapeutics and Technology Assessment Subcommittee (TTA) produce guidelines: “systematically developed statements to assist practitioner and patient decisions about appropriate health care for specific clinical circumstances.”1 These guidelines aim to improve the quality of patient care and possibly the efficiency in use of health care resources.2 Clinical practice guidelines are typically based on 1) the best available peer-reviewed scientific evidence, 2) a consensus of expert opinion, or 3) a combination of these two sources.3 The AAN’s guideline development process aims at the evidence-based category, with little use for expert opinion. Recently, methodologic standards for assessing the quality of guidelines have been suggested.2 Three dimensions of guideline characteristics are considered: 1) development and format, 2) evidence identification and summary, and 3) formulation of recommendations. Using these criteria, only 43% of the standards were met across a broad swathe of published guidelines.2 Of concern, only 15% of guidelines explicitly graded the scientific evidence and only 13% graded recommendations according to the strength of the evidence. These two critical standards are strengths of the AAN guideline development …

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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)0.014
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.086
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: none
Teacher disagreement score0.038
Threshold uncertainty score0.126

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0140.086
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.002
Bibliometrics0.0080.007
Science and technology studies0.0030.002
Scholarly communication0.0040.003
Open science0.0050.002
Research integrity0.0130.013
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0380.047

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 head0.457
GPT teacher head0.564
Teacher spread0.107 · 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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Citations16
Published2002
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