Funding sources of practice-changing trials
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Prospective clinical trials drive the evolution of practices. They validate new medical approaches as well as improving knowledge related to a specific disease. Hypotheses tested in clinical trials are expected to be diverse and could include testing drug efficacy, treatment strategy like combination or sequencing, drug schedule, biomarkers, quality of life (QoL), prevention, etc. Clinical trials are also expensive [1]. They have two types of funding source: funding coming nonprofit, mainly public, organizations and funding coming from for-profit organizations, usually the bio-pharmaceutical industry.
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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 | 0.294 | 0.735 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.017 | 0.024 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.016 | 0.009 |
| Open science | 0.008 | 0.013 |
| Research integrity | 0.012 | 0.008 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.102 | 0.051 |
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; the direct Gemma label and the distilled Codex classifier agree on what is shown here.
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".