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Record W2344835698 · doi:10.3399/bjgp16x685153

Atomic data: James Mackenzie Lecture 2015

2016· article· en· W2344835698 on OpenAlexaff
Frank Sullivan

Bibliographic record

VenueBritish Journal of General Practice · 2016
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicPrimary Care and Health Outcomes
Canadian institutionsPublic Health OntarioUniversity of TorontoInstitute for Clinical Evaluative SciencesNorth York General Hospital
FundersMedical Research Council
KeywordsMedicineHealth careAnalogyMedical educationGerontologyFamily medicineLawEpistemologyPolitical sciencePhilosophy

Abstract

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When Sir James Mackenzie was moving back to Scotland from London in 1918 to set up the Institute for Clinical Research in St Andrews he said that he wanted ‘To do for medicine what the Atomic Theory had done for chemistry’ .1 He was referring to the fact that Sir Ernest Rutherford had ‘split the atom’ the year before and ushered in a new scientific age through nuclear fission. Mackenzie saw an analogy with what he hoped to achieve in medicine through fusion of data across time and from various sources. He believed that the information recorded in GP consultations about the early stages of disease would lead to new ways to understand health and disease, leading to earlier and better diagnosis and treatment.2 He was frustrated then, as we often still are, by not knowing what the symptoms and signs our patients consult us about really mean. Mackenzie hoped that a group of family physicians who kept continuous records of all cases they saw, including details of the patients’ living conditions, dietary and smoking habits, and employment, would enable research to be carried out into the relationship between environmental factors and disease.3 In this idea, he was ahead of his time, but developments in using electronic medical records and practice-based research networks are now enabling his vision to be realised. This lecture will describe the extent to which the data recorded by GPs are already contributing to improved care for patients and discuss emergent opportunities in research internationally by describing how family physicians can now make significant contributions to medical science every day in their work.4 In a GP consultation such as that shown in Box 1 there are many data points that are already present in the patient’s record and many others that will …

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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)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
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: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: Commentary
Teacher disagreement score0.243
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.002
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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 head0.064
GPT teacher head0.442
Teacher spread0.378 · 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 designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreCommentary

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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