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Record W2306825154 · doi:10.1093/pm/pnw035

Improving Pain Care Through Telemedicine: Future or Folly?

2016· editorial· en· W2306825154 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Kevin E. Vorenkamp

Bibliographic record

VenuePain Medicine · 2016
Typeeditorial
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicTelemedicine and Telehealth Implementation
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTelemedicineMedicinePain medicinePain managementMedical emergencyAnesthesiaHealth careAnesthesiologyPolitical science

Abstract

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In this issue, Liddy et al. [1] report their findings regarding improving access to chronic pain services through the use of telehealth e-consultative services. Dr. Liddy and her colleagues tackled a common problem of access to pain medicine consultative services in North America and found that e-consultative services greatly improved access to patient care in the Ottawa health care system. Using these services, patient information was reviewed in a median response time of less than 2 days, compared with an average wait time of 6 months or greater (up to 2.5 years) with a conventional referral and in-person consultation. Although this is significantly longer than the anticipated wait times in the United States (US), it does mirror the challenges of prompt access to care, particularly for patients in rural settings or those of lower socioeconomic status that rely on state or indigent care programs, which may further limit their access to care. The referring primary care physicians greatly valued the service in >90% of cases, citing benefits provided to both patients and themselves, and including avoidance of unnecessary in-person referrals. Unfortunately the study did not capture the patient-perceived value in the e-consultative service. The format of their intervention, … kevin.vorenkamp{at}gmail.com

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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)0.009
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.024
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch, Meta-epidemiology (narrow), Research integrity, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Research integrity
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Editorial · Consensus signal: Editorial
Teacher disagreement score0.286
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0090.024
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0030.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.000

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 head0.015
GPT teacher head0.352
Teacher spread0.337 · 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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEditorial

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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Published2016
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