Introducing the Fifth Edition of the <i>Canadian Tuberculosis Standards</i>
Bibliographic record
Abstract
T he fifth and latest edition of the Canadian Tuberculosis Standards is now available through the offices of the Canadian Lung Association (CLA), and the individual provincial and territorial lung associations.Since the publication of the last edition of the Canadian Tuberculosis Standards (1) of the CLA and Canadian Thoracic Society (CTS), there has been renewed interest in the global resurgence of tuberculosis.In Canada, the epidemiology of tuberculosis reflects the many important challenges for tuberculosis control: an increasing proportion, now 64%, of all patients with tuberculosis in Canada are born outside Canada; there has been limited success in reducing the incidence of tuberculosis among aboriginal peoples, particularly in western Canada and the Territories; and tuberculosishuman immunodeficiency virus coinfection and drug resistance are growing problems.As a result, there has been increasing collaboration between the various tuberculosis stakeholders in the country including the provincial and territorial tuberculosis control programs, Health Canada, Citizenship and Immigration Canada, and the CLA/CTS.It is altogether fitting, therefore, that the fifth edition of the Canadian Tuberculosis Standards has been coproduced by the CLA/CTS and the Division of Tuberculosis Prevention and Control at the Centre for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Health Canada.Some may ask why a fifth edition of the Standards is in such close succession to the fourth, published in 1996?Perhaps the best answer is the need to prepare ourselves in the new millennium to better respond to two major tuberculosis elimination initiatives: a National Tuberculosis Elimination Strategy issued by Medical Services Branch, Health Canada in 1992, with the aim of eliminating tuberculosis in First Nations peoples by the year 2010; and a National Consensus Conference on Tuberculosis, such as the Parkinson's Disease
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.014 | 0.038 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.006 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.014 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.007 | 0.010 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.029 | 0.013 |
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".