Bibliographic record
Abstract
This year's Annual Dialysis Conference was held in the Georgia World Conference Center in Atlanta from February 8th to the 11th and was the 34th such international conference sponsored by the University of Missouri. What started all those years ago as a conference devoted to peritoneal dialysis gradually evolved over the years to include hemodialysis, pediatric dialysis and home hemodialysis. The audience today includes not only physicians and nurses but social workers, dieticians, technicians, administrators, representatives of all aspects of the dialysis industry, government, and other interested parties including, of course, patients. The program includes presentations and discussions on all aspects of dialysis together with educational sessions, presentation of selected abstracts, poster sessions and a comprehensive exhibition. In addition, on the day before the meeting there are specific programs including one day comprehensive courses on hemodialysis, the fundamentals of home hemodialysis, the fundamentals of dialysis in children, a program specifically designed for dialysis technicians and a program on the challenges and opportunities for daily dialysis in North America. Each year the conference hosts between 2,000 and 3,000 attendees. As noted previously, this year is the 50th anniversary of the beginning use of home hemodialysis and I am happy to say that the program included more items related to this treatment than in any previous year. This is encouraging as home hemodialysis in the U.S. is gradually increasing but has not yet reached 2% of prevalent dialysis patients. Nine other countries have a higher percentage of such patients, led by New Zealand (16%) and Australia (8.5%). The others are Denmark, Finland, Canada, Sweden, the UK , the Netherlands and Hong Kong. It would be interesting to speculate how these differences came about. About 6 months ago Stanley Shaldon died. He was one of the pioneers of hemodialysis and 50 years ago was the first to treat a patient by overnight home hemodialysis. This issue of Hemodialysis International includes an obituary of Stanley by Angus Rae, one of his early collaborators. About the time this issue of Hemodialysis International reaches you the International Society for Hemodialysis will be holding their 7th International Congress in Okinawa and in September this year the 8th Congress will be held in Shanghai, China—see the notice in this issue. The 9th Congress will be held next year in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. In addition, the Hemodialysis University will have held its second oversea meeting in Hyderabad, India at the beginning of March this year. Note that the edited recordings of the Universities are available on the ISHD website, http://www.ishd.net/, as are links to people and events related to the early history of dialysis. The website also provides information for physicians, nurses, students and others on how to become members of the ISHD and so receive Hemodialysis International and access to back files. Why not join the ISHD?
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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 | 0.002 | 0.009 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.524 | 0.367 |
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".