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Record W2116927394 · doi:10.5581/1516-8484.20130118

Issues in the measurement of quality of life in hemophilia

2013· article· en· W2116927394 on OpenAlexaff
Brian M. Feldman

Bibliographic record

VenueRevista Brasileira de Hematologia e Hemoterapia · 2013
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicHemophilia Treatment and Research
Canadian institutionsHospital for Sick ChildrenUniversity of TorontoSickKids Foundation
Fundersnot available
KeywordsObservational studyQuality of life (healthcare)HaemophiliaScale (ratio)MedicineQuality (philosophy)Independence (probability theory)PsychologyFamily medicinePediatricsPathologyNursingStatisticsMathematicsEpistemology

Abstract

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It is widely claimed that can't manage what you don't measure. Likely this quote is derived from statements made by Lord Kelvin to the Institution of Civil Engineers. In his 1883 address, he claimed: ...when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind... (1) A number of tools have been developed to accurately assess our hemophilia patients' progress and response to changing treatments. These include radiographic scores (like the Pettersson (X-ray) score and the compatible magnetic resonance imaging score), musculoskeletal assessment tools (like the Hemophilia Joint Health Scale), functional assessment questionnaires (like the Haemo-philia Activities List) or observational tools (like the Functional Independence Scale for Haemophilia), as well as summary measures of health - which are often called quality of life (QoL) or health-related quality of life (HRQL) tools(2-15). These tools have given clinicians and researchers powerful new ways to describe their patients' illnesses, but there are a number of considerations that should be addressed in future work. This commentary will address some of these issues.

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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)0.048
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.135
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.048
Threshold uncertainty score0.252

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0480.135
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0030.002
Bibliometrics0.0020.004
Science and technology studies0.0050.021
Scholarly communication0.0060.008
Open science0.0080.004
Research integrity0.0190.033
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.001

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 head0.078
GPT teacher head0.356
Teacher spread0.278 · 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 designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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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Published2013
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