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Record W2159788527 · doi:10.1503/cmaj.050586

Prescription to over-the-counter deregulation in Canada: Are we ready for it, or do we need to be?

2005· article· en· W2159788527 on OpenAlexaffvenueabout
Larry D. Lynd

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Medical Association Journal · 2005
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicPharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes
Canadian institutionsCentre for Advancing Health OutcomesVancouver General HospitalSt. Joseph’s Healthcare HamiltonUniversity of British ColumbiaUniversity of SaskatchewanVancouver Coastal Health Research InstituteVancouver Coastal Health
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedical prescriptionOver-the-counterEmergency contraceptionMedicineDeregulationAlternative medicineFamily medicineInternet privacyMedical emergencyWorld Wide WebComputer sciencePharmacologyFamily planningEnvironmental healthResearch methodologyPopulation

Abstract

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Emergency contraception[1][1] is just the latest example in a long list of medications that are being shifted from prescription only to over-the-counter (OTC) status. More experience with other potent and effective prescription drugs and an increased understanding of their safety and efficacy in the

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.006
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 score0.934
Threshold uncertainty score0.476

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.006
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.003
Science and technology studies0.0030.002
Scholarly communication0.0020.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0020.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0100.000

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 head0.364
Teacher spread0.271 · 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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Citations11
Published2005
Admission routes3
Has abstractyes

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