Bibliographic record
Abstract
Despite recent advances in hemodialysis (HD) technology. The overall outcome of patients on conventional HD remains miserably unsatisfactory with a 5-year patient survival rate of 30% in the United States. In search of better HD modalities, a number of investigators in Europe and North America have reported greatly improved outcome with prolonged and/or frequent RD. These include 8h, 3-times-weekly HD from Tassin, France, every-other-day or 4-times-weekly HD from Lecce, Italy, Short daily HD (SDHD) from Perugia, Italy, and nocturnal HD (NHD) from Toronto, Canada, with increasing number of other SDHD and NHD programs reported in recent years. The prolonged and/or frequent HD allows better clearance of solutes, smooth ultrafiltration with good control of hypertension, avoidance of solute rebound and disequilibrium symptoms, liberalization of diet with improved nutrition, and better neuro-cognitive function. In addition, NHD is associated with correction of hyperphosphatemia without the use of phosphate binders, improved removal of middle molecules such as β2 microglobulin, and effective control of sleep apnea. Above all, in all of these HD modalities, patient survival is remarkably improved with reduction in hospitalization, and the better quality of life leads to good rehabilitation. Although these reports are based on anecdotal experiences, many with selected groups of patients, the impressive improvement in patient outcome makes it worthwhile to further pursue large scale controlled studies for confirmation as well as for the future guide to improve HD modalities.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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".