Unlocking the benefits of emergency obstetric care in Africa : editorial
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Emergency Obstetric care (EmOC) is the form of clinical care that responds to un-expected complications of pregnancy such as haemorrhage and hypertensive crisis in pregnancy. In a recent publication, the UNFPA identified two forms of EmOC1 as including Basic Emergency Obstetric Care (BEmOC), and Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric Care (CEmOC). BEmOC consists of services such as administration of antibiotics, uterotonic drugs, and anti-convulsants; manual removal of retained placenta; removal of retained products following delivery or abortion; assisted vaginal delivery, possibly with a vacuum extractor; and basic neonatal resuscitation procedures. By contrast, CEmOC consists of all the basic functions enumerated above, but also includes institutional ability to perform caesarean sections safely and to administer blood transfusion as well as the provision made for the advanced treatment and resuscitation of sick babies. BEmOC are expected to be carried out in primary health centres, while CEmOC has to be implemented in secondary or tertiary health care facilities, enabling the strategic adoption of a systems approach for addressing the problem.
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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 | 0.007 | 0.023 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.008 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.015 | 0.020 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.003 |
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".