Bibliographic record
Abstract
Calgary health experts may soon be helping the UK tackle its waiting list woes — and in the process generate some revenue for services at home. The Anglo-Canadian Clinics Ltd., a consortium of British and Canadian companies, is the preferred bidder to provide ambulatory health care services at 2 regions. The British members include Accommodata Ltd. (housing), Bowner & Kirkland (construction) and Torex Medical Systems (computers). The Canadian interests include the Calgary Health Region, the University of Calgary Medical Group and Surgical Centres Inc. The UK is opening 21 high-volume diagnostic and treatment centres (see page 187) to alleviate elective surgery wait ing lists. The centres aim to add 250 000 cataract, joint replacement and minor surgical procedures by 2005. The Calgary consortium expects to export an undisclosed number of physicians, nurses and other health care workers to the UK to provide expertise in areas such as orthopedics. However, the faculty of medicine's executive director says this won't leave Calgary short handed. “There will be no net reduction [of staff],” said Paul Heinrich. “All are supernumerary.” The 2 contracts are slated to be signed in March and June so details are currently sparse, but there is certainly money to be made. The contracts will gross £70 million (Cnd$163 million) a year for 5 years. All the consortium's profits will be reinvested in the Alberta health system. Calgary's Dean of Medicine, Dr. Grant Gall, said the invitation to bid, which came at the request of the UK's health secretary, is “international recognition of what we do as an academic centre. If we can generate income while we do this, so much the better.” “Our primary reason for being involved in this is to be involved in international health,” adds Gall, who is a board member at the CHR. The project was spurred by the Don Mazankowski's report on Alberta's health care system which urged innovation in developing new revenue streams to finance health care. The Calgary–UK exchange also brings the possibility of recruiting UK staff to Calgary, says Gall. — Louise Gagnon, Ottawa
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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 | 0.013 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
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".