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Record W2138373574 · doi:10.1109/mpul.2010.939178

Quality of Life on Trial

2010· article· en· W2138373574 on OpenAlexaff
Élie Sarraf

Bibliographic record

VenueIEEE Pulse · 2010
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicCardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
Canadian institutionsMcGill University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRandomized controlled trialPopulationEvidence-based medicineMedicineQuality (philosophy)MEDLINEComputer scienceAsk priceVariety (cybernetics)Alternative medicineMedical physicsPsychologyFamily medicineArtificial intelligenceSurgeryEpistemologyPathology

Abstract

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Λny tool that man develops has potential flaws, whether we choose to recognize them or not. The concept of evidence-based medicine (EBM), along with its established "gold standard," the N-ple blind randomized control trial (RCT), is no different. In clinical medicine, when we wish to ask a scientific question, such as the effectiveness of a medication or product, we conduct studies on a patient population. These studies are organized via a variety of different methods; the best regarded among them are what is called RCT. We call EBM the compilation and application of the information gathered from different studies, so as to obtain the best possible outcome for a patient population. Within the sphere of EBM, there are different classifications that are used to inform clinicians on how strongly regarded a concept may be (e.g., "aspirin should be used with anyone suspected of having a heart attack" is highly regarded). The classifications are often directly linked with the type of study or analysis; data resulting from RCTs are considered among the strongest form of EBM, second only to meta-analyses, which is the compilation of several RCTs.

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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)0.073
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.220
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: none
Teacher disagreement score0.073
Threshold uncertainty score0.389

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0730.220
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0050.008
Bibliometrics0.0070.007
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0060.005
Open science0.0020.005
Research integrity0.0020.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0520.005

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 head0.043
GPT teacher head0.344
Teacher spread0.301 · 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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Published2010
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