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Record W2253754608 · doi:10.1093/jtm/tav009

Malaria prevention—keep it simple and logical

2016· article· en· W2253754608 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Martin Haditsch

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Travel Medicine · 2016
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicTravel-related health issues
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMalariaMedicineIndigenousTravel medicinePopulationScarcityEnvironmental healthPsychiatryImmunology

Abstract

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Due to various activities—including those by the World Bank and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—we are happy to see a global decrease in malaria cases. But too many still suffer and die from malaria so malaria prevention or at least to prevent deaths by malaria is of paramount importance, still. And this is not true for the indigenous population only but for travellers as well. Balancing the risk of disease with that of possible side effects of chemoprophylaxis is a difficult task which mostly leads to split decisions even in experts (as was shown in a thrilling Pro-Con debate at the CISTM14 in Quebec in May 2015). This lack of guidance left and still leaves many colleagues (including qualified travel medicine practitioners) quite puzzled—not to talk about those on target—i.e. the travellers. For sustainable guidance my deep believe is: KEEP IT SIMPLE—otherwise counselling doctors (not all of whom are experts in tropical medicine or malariology) as well as travellers will get lost in confusion for sure1 (‘The compliance is inversely proportional to the complexity of the prescription’—Haynes and Sackett 1976). Insect bite precautions (IBP) from dusk until dawn are the mainstay of malaria prophylaxis—so this is of paramount importance for each traveller going to malaria endemic areas no matter how high the risk actually is. The first crucial decision of the binary decision tree is the definition of high risk of exposure (but may consider high risk of complications in vulnerable travellers as well). Whereas some sources say that there is no method of quantifying the risk2 in other sources high risk is defined by a risk …

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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)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.775
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

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 head0.061
GPT teacher head0.370
Teacher spread0.309 · 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.

Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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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