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Record W2415738879 · doi:10.1177/1715163515607309

Improving pharmaceutical care for athletes

2015· article· en· W2415738879 on OpenAlexaffvenue
Amy D. Morris

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Pharmacists Journal / Revue des Pharmaciens du Canada · 2015
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicHormonal and reproductive studies
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAthletesPharmaceutical careMedicinePhysical therapyPharmacyFamily medicine

Abstract

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Pharmacists often overlook athletes as patients who might benefit from trusted pharmaceutical advice.Many athletes are strongly motivated to seek techniques or substances to optimize performance.Any strategy to increase performance, from anabolic steroids to visualization techniques, can be referred to as an ergogenic aid. 1,2Most pertinent to pharmacists are the regulated pharmaceutical ergogenic aids, such as natural health products (NHPs) or supplements. 1A recent survey of college athletes indicated that 42% had used supplements within the previous year. 2With high use, pharmaceutical support is required.Ample misinformation surrounds NHPs and supplements.Product marketing overemphasizes the benefits and minimizes the shortcomings.However, athletes continue to financially fuel the industry, hoping that marketing claims are factual.When selecting supplements, athletes often place high value on testimonial evidence.As pharmacists-grounded in evidence-an opportunity exists to improve care.As Peter J. Ambrose, Doping Control Officer of the Sydney and Beijing Olympics, states, "Pharmacists are primed to recommend products supported by efficacy and safety data while considering an athlete's specific needs." 3 Accompanying this opportunity is notable demand from athletes.In the United States, one study showed that over 1000 drug or NHP inquiries were made to the National Collegiate Athletic Association each month between July 2009 and June 2010.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.007
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.051
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.038
Threshold uncertainty score0.125

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0070.051
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0050.002
Scholarly communication0.0050.003
Open science0.0010.006
Research integrity0.0050.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0380.006

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 head0.076
GPT teacher head0.319
Teacher spread0.243 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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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