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Record W2431690992

Medical misadventure = human tragedy.

2001· article· en· W2431690992 on OpenAlexaff
Patrick Turner, Niamh Thornton

Bibliographic record

VenuePubMed · 2001
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicEthics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare
Canadian institutionsRichmond Hospital
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSorrowGriefMistakeTragedy (event)Action (physics)PsychologyHistoryWishPsychoanalysisSocial psychologyLawLiteratureArtPsychiatryPolitical science
DOInot available

Abstract

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In May of 1997 a drug inadvertently injected intrathecally caused severe neurological damage and death to a child. This event rendered a family grief-stricken and numerous health care providers forever changed. As Paget (1988) says, "The sorrow of mistakes is sometimes very diffuse and sometimes very pointed. It is sometimes the sorrow of failed action and sometimes the sorrow of failed conduct. The sorrow of mistakes has been expressed as the too-lateness of human understanding as it lies along the continuum of time, and as a wish that it might have been different, both then and now" (p.149). The reports of this tragic event in the media horrified a mother in another province. The same error had led to the death of her child five years earlier. In fact, this error has taken place a number of times in North America in the preceding decade. However, we did not know of the previous tragedies nor had we fully understood how critical examination of some of our own earlier near misses could have made such a tragic mistake less likely to occur.

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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)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.013
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 score0.054
Threshold uncertainty score0.181

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.013
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0040.006
Scholarly communication0.0030.006
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0050.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0540.015

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 head0.050
GPT teacher head0.347
Teacher spread0.297 · 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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