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Record W2612675634

Guest Editorial: Alternative Therapies and Symptom Management

2016· editorial· en· W2612675634 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Bonnie Stevens

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Journal of Nursing Research · 2016
Typeeditorial
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicHealth Sciences Research and Education
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPerspective (graphical)DilemmaAnxietyPsychologyValue (mathematics)MedicinePsychotherapistSocial psychologyClinical psychologyPsychiatryEpistemology
DOInot available

Abstract

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Symptoms, from the perspective of the health professional, indicate that is amiss. This something could simply be our body telling us that we require rest, nourishment, or fluid, or it could be a complex response from an etiology of known or unknown origin. As health professionals, we are compelled to investigate the nature of symptoms when they are presented to us, verbally or non-verbally, by those for whom we provide care. Based on our assessment, we can generate hypotheses that can be further investigated to determine the cause of the symptom. When it is of an objective nature, such as fever, we are able to measure it accurately in well-established measurement units (i.e., degrees) that correctly indicate the degree of severity. The severity of the symptom provides further information that will aid in the search for the cause of the underlying dilemma. However, when the symptom is of a subjective nature, such as pain, fear, or anxiety, accurate measurement can be a problem, particularly if the individual is unable or unwilling to provide an accurate verbal description. Because these subjective symptoms are all somewhat familiar, our assessment of them frequently is laden with personal opinions, beliefs, attitudes, and expectations about what will effectively eliminate them. Unfortunately we often bring these value-laden biases into new patient situations, thus influencing what we hear from and/or see in those we are caring for. While we are attempting to assess symptoms in an accurate manner, we are also trying to the symptom using the safest and most efficacious intervention we can. But what do we really mean by manage? Ideally, we manage a symptom by instituting an intervention that will eliminate it and prevent its return, or, if this is not possible, by striving to provide a therapy that will relieve, reduce, ameliorate, or simply make whatever is amiss better. Based on this ideology, symptom management should be broad in scope, encompass all types of safe and effective therapies, and be based on the best and most current research evidence available. In reality, however, we frequently

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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)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.014
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: Editorial · Consensus signal: Editorial
Teacher disagreement score0.030
Threshold uncertainty score0.099

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.014
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0040.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0040.003
Bibliometrics0.0030.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.002
Scholarly communication0.0060.004
Open science0.0040.002
Research integrity0.0120.017
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0300.019

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 head0.169
GPT teacher head0.567
Teacher spread0.398 · 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
GenreEditorial

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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