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Record W2730123991 · doi:10.18192/uojm.v7i1.1990

A Case for an Opt-Out Organ Donation System in Canada

2017· article· fr· W2730123991 on OpenAlexaffvenueabout
Taylor Aust

Bibliographic record

VenueUniversity of Ottawa Journal of Medicine · 2017
Typearticle
Languagefr
FieldMedicine
TopicOrgan Donation and Transplantation
Canadian institutionsUniversité de Montréal
Fundersnot available
KeywordsOrgan donationDonationLegislationHumanitiesPolitical scienceOpt-outLawBusinessTransplantationMedicineAdvertisingArtSurgery

Abstract

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This commentary supports an ‘opt-out’ system for organ donation in Canada. To begin, it examines the state of organ donation in our country and presents both the ‘opt-in’ and ‘opt-out’ schemes. Then, it argues in favour of implementing ‘opt-out’ legislation in Canada, suggesting that this system makes donation easier for families and improves the donor rate. Opinions against ‘opt-out’ are considered and debated. Finally, other donation systems as well as potential methods to encourage organ donation are briefly discussed. RÉSUMÉ Ce commentaire appuie la mise en place d’un système avec option de retrait (‘opt-out’ system en anglais) pour le don d’organes au Canada. Tout d’abord, ce commentaire se penche sur l’état actuel du don d’organes dans notre pays et présente à la fois le modèle à option d’adhésion (‘opt in’) et celui à option de retrait (‘opt out’). Puis, il argumente en faveur de la mise en œuvre d’une législation qui permettrait un système avec option de retrait au Canada, suggérant que cela faciliterait le don d’organes pour les familles et amé- liorerait les taux de dons. Certains des arguments contre le système avec option de retrait sont examinés et démontés. Finalement, d’autres systèmes de dons, ainsi que des méthodes pouvant possiblement encourager le don d’organes, sont discutés brièvement.

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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)0.006
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.016
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.869
Threshold uncertainty score0.950

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0060.016
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0370.012
Scholarly communication0.0110.003
Open science0.0030.005
Research integrity0.0090.014
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.000

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 head0.026
GPT teacher head0.255
Teacher spread0.229 · 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 designTheoretical or conceptual
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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