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What is Lean? An overview and its emerging role in health care

2015· article· en· W249228800 on OpenAlexafffundabout
Douglas R. McKay, Daniel A Peters

Bibliographic record

VenuePlastic Surgery · 2015
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicHealthcare Quality and Management
Canadian institutionsUniversity of OttawaQueen's University
FundersTelfer School of Management, University of OttawaQueen's University
KeywordsHealth careBusinessProcess managementEconomicsEconomic growth

Abstract

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It seems that, as each day passes, surgeons in Canada are expected to better understand and control the cost implications of their craft and its impact on the broader system. As budgets continue to contract relative to inflation and previous epochs of prosperity, austerity and cost containment will continue to dominate health care delivery. Cost control is not a novel concept for businesses that are obliged to answer to principals’ and shareholders’ demands for profit. Health care in Canada has remained relatively impervious to this metric, where the notion of patient care has always trumped penny pinching. In fact, perseverating over cost in the past and choosing lower cost alternatives was, in a way, akin to offering inferior care. The pendulum has swung; cost containment is regarded as a means to system salvation and self-preservation.

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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)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.455
Threshold uncertainty score0.600

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.321
GPT teacher head0.494
Teacher spread0.173 · 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.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
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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