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Record W2143911754 · doi:10.3821/1913-701x-140-sp2.s2

Vaccines — One of the Greatest Medical Advances of Modern Times

2007· article· en· W2143911754 on OpenAlexaffvenueabout
Rosemary Killeen

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Pharmacists Journal / Revue des Pharmaciens du Canada · 2007
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicVaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
Canadian institutionsCanadian Pharmacists Association
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineFamily medicineIntensive care medicine

Abstract

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Vaccines, recognized recently by the British Medical Journal as one of the greatest medical advances of the past 160 years, have saved hundreds of millions of lives since their introduction. those of us who recognize that immunization has prevented more Canadian deaths in the last 50 years than any other health intervention find it difficult to understand why anyone challenges the need for completing their (or their child’s) recommended vaccination schedules. yet many health care providers spend considerable time and effort educating their patients (and their patients’ parents) on the importance of immunizations and often find it difficult to find resources to adequately answer questions about the risks and benefits of the ever-expanding list of vaccines available today. more than 200 years after the first vaccine was successfully administered, many details about immunization remain unclear in the minds of Canadian patients and their families. Here are a few immunization facts:

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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)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.007
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: Commentary · Consensus signal: Commentary
Teacher disagreement score0.243
Threshold uncertainty score0.483

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.007
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0040.005
Scholarly communication0.0040.003
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0030.007
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0110.003

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 head0.026
GPT teacher head0.297
Teacher spread0.270 · 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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Citations3
Published2007
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