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From science to practice

2012· book-chapter· en· W2502178966 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
John Geddes

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldDecision Sciences
TopicMeta-analysis and systematic reviews
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPresentation (obstetrics)Identification (biology)Critical appraisalSet (abstract data type)Reading (process)Process (computing)Clinical PracticeMedical educationBest practicePsychologyAlternative medicineMedicineComputer scienceManagement scienceFamily medicineEngineeringPolitical sciencePathology

Abstract

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Abstract Clinicians need accurate and up-to-date information about emerging knowledge on assessment and treatment as well as other developments in practice. The presentation of this knowledge needs to be timely, accurate, and unbiased. In an ideal world, every psychiatrist would have instantaneous access to the original scientific articles. As this is not feasible because clinicians are busy and the skills needed for an adequate systematic search, critical appraisal, and interpretation of research articles are not routinely available. Further, the volume of research articles is staggering: about 2 million papers are published in 20 000 biomedical journals every year, and even if a psychiatrist restricted her reading to those clinical psychiatry journals it would be necessary to read about 5500 papers each year—equivalent to 15 papers every day. Clearly, a strategy is required for efficient and timely identification of research that is both methodologically sound and clinically relevant. A coherent set of strategies designed as a clinical tool to link the best available evidence directly to the care of individual patients was first formulated at McMaster University in Canada—an approach called evidence-based medicine. Evidence-based medicine is problem-based and splits the process of linking research to practice into five stages (formulating a structured clinical question, finding evidence and advances in the organization of clinical knowledge, using a systematic approach to searching for the best available evidence, applying the evidence to the clinical problem, and assessing and improving the process) plus the identification of clinical questions in need of more research. To make evidence-based practice feasible in real-life clinical practice, a number of problems need to be solved at each stage of the process.

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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)0.085
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.198
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.915
Threshold uncertainty score0.450

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0850.198
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0030.002
Bibliometrics0.0060.004
Science and technology studies0.0050.030
Scholarly communication0.0310.026
Open science0.0060.024
Research integrity0.0140.030
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0360.017

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 head0.828
GPT teacher head0.573
Teacher spread0.254 · 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.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
DomainMethods
GenreMethods

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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