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Disclosure of medical error

2008· book-chapter· en· W219729678 on OpenAlexaff
P. C. Hebert, Alex V. Levin, Gerald B. Robertson

Bibliographic record

VenueCambridge University Press eBooks · 2008
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicMedical Malpractice and Liability Issues
Canadian institutionsUniversity of AlbertaUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineEmergency departmentGeneral surgeryChartSurpriseCataract surgerySurgeryMedical emergencyNursingPsychology

Abstract

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A 77-year-old farmer with recurring kidney stones visits his urologist for an annual examination. Prior to seeing the patient, the physician is taken aside by her nurse, who tells her the patient had been in the emergency department the previous night with hematuria. A CAT scan had been done, which indicated that the renal tumor seen on last year's CAT scan was larger and there were now lung metastases. The physician cannot remember ever seeing the radiology report from last year. To her complete surprise, it is found filed in the patient's chart. There is no record in the chart that the results were ever shared with the patient. She considers herself extremely meticulous and has never had such an oversight before. The urologist considers what she should tell the patient. A 12-year-old boy has cataract surgery at a large teaching hospital. At a critical moment the surgeon's hand slips, severely rupturing the lens capsule. The planned implantation of an intraocular lens has to be abandoned. Instead, the patient will have to use a contact lens. The physician wonders what he should tell the patient and his family about the surgery. What is medical error? Well-publicized reports of harm occurring to patients as a result of their medical care in the USA (Patient Safety Foundation, 1998), Canada (Sinclair, 1994) and the UK (Smith, 1998) have raised public concerns about the safety of modern healthcare.

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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)0.021
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.157
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: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.035
Threshold uncertainty score0.117

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0210.157
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0030.004
Scholarly communication0.0050.003
Open science0.0020.004
Research integrity0.0170.012
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0350.016

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 head0.085
GPT teacher head0.349
Teacher spread0.264 · 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
GenreOther

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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