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Record W2136146389 · doi:10.1136/hrt.2002.005165

Nuclear cardiology in the UK: do we apply evidence based medicine?

2004· review· en· W2136146389 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Shakeel Rahman

Bibliographic record

VenueHeart · 2004
Typereview
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicCardiac Imaging and Diagnostics
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineCoronary artery diseaseChest painNational Service FrameworkInterventional cardiologyAnginaCanadian Cardiovascular SocietyPercutaneous coronary interventionInternal medicineCardiologyHealth careIntensive care medicineMyocardial perfusion imagingAppropriate Use CriteriaDiseaseMyocardial infarctionGerontology

Abstract

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oronary artery disease is one of the greatest health care problems facing the western industrialised nations. Each year in the UK coronary artery disease is responsible for approximately 125 000 deaths, 274 000 nonfatal myocardial infarctions, and 330 000 new presentations of angina. 1 There have been significant advances in coronary disease treatment over the last few years, with improvements in pharmacological therapy, percutaneous coronary intervention, and bypass surgery. It is therefore increasingly important to identify patients who will benefit from these approaches from the large number of people presenting with chest pain. The cost of identifying this group is putting health care systems under severe financial strain as much as the expense of the treatment itself. The importance of this issue was recognised by the UK government with the publication of its National Service Framework (NSF) for coronary heart disease document in 2000, linked to the provision of significant additional funding. 2 An extensive body of evidence has accumulated over the last 20 years demonstrating the ability of nuclear cardiology techniques, particularly myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI), to identify and risk stratify patients with coronary artery disease. Strategies which involve MPI in the investigation of patients with chest pain have been shown to be cost effective as well as clinically effective. 4-6 MPI is therefore a potentially valuable tool in a resource limited system such as the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK. This article will attempt to define a realistic evidence based role for MPI in UK cardiology and will then review current practice in terms of both the number and quality of investigations performed.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.583
Threshold uncertainty score0.749

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.001
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.093
GPT teacher head0.385
Teacher spread0.292 · 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 teacher head, 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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Published2004
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