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Record W2626177949 · doi:10.15173/m.v1i27.961

The Incentive Bias: Subject Underreporting of Adverse Drug Effects

2016· article· en· W2626177949 on OpenAlexaffvenue
Matthew Breton

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Meducator · 2016
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicHealth Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
Canadian institutionsMcMaster University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsIncentiveSubject (documents)Adverse effectDrugHealth economicsMedicinePublic economicsEconomicsEnvironmental healthPharmacologyPublic healthComputer scienceMicroeconomics

Abstract

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I discuss my experience participating in a clinical trial and my encounters with other subjects. Through this unique position I gained the perspective of the typical study participant, which led to the discovery of fears which deter subjects from reporting symptoms. This incentive bias is caused by the financial duress of many participants, resulting in a high incentive to complete the study. Changes in health go unreported reported which skews adverse drug reaction data and leads to additional costs imposed to healthcare. Clinical trials should strive to eliminate incentive bias to improve the transparency and increase reporting fidelity.

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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)0.244
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.569
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch, Research integrity
Consensus categoriesMetaresearch
DomainCandidate signal: Reporting · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.996
Threshold uncertainty score0.932

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.2440.569
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.002
Bibliometrics0.0030.003
Science and technology studies0.0020.006
Scholarly communication0.0040.005
Open science0.0020.004
Research integrity0.0040.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.001

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 head0.258
GPT teacher head0.415
Teacher spread0.157 · 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; the direct Gemma label and the distilled Codex classifier agree on what is shown here.

Study designObservational
DomainReporting
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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Published2016
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