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Record W280021906 · doi:10.1308/003588407x202173h

Advanced Endourology: The Complete Clinical Guide.

2015· article· en· W280021906 on OpenAlex
Chris Chilton

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Bibliographic record

VenuePubMed Central · 2015
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicPediatric Urology and Nephrology Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineComputer scienceMedical physics

Abstract

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This book is a small, but weighty, tome; in fact, it weighs two-and-a-half pounds. It is, as the editors describe, a resource guide for all aspects of endourology and especially advanced endourology. It is a multi-authored book written by national and world experts in endourology from the US and Canada. This book, therefore, provides very much an American view of endourology. Each chapter, however, is very well referenced and covers world-wide opinion, which gives an international flavour to the text. The book itself is divided into six parts: diagnosis and instrumentation, calculus therapy, incisional therapy, ablative therapy, complications of endourology and paediatric minimally invasive surgery. Each chapter is written to the same pattern, starting with the contents, followed by a summary and introduction to the chapter; the text follows with a final conclusion and a comprehensive list of references. Each topic is covered by a structured programme of indications, instrumentation, technique, results, complications, tips and tricks and a final conclusion. This makes the chapters very readable, while the structure makes dipping into it and picking out various techniques and outcomes very easy, which I found particularly useful. The style of the text is very formal and slightly old-fashioned. Occasionally, the text is a little too long and could be better paragraphed to make it more readable. The illustrations are also slightly old-fashioned, with some of the X-rays and endoscopic views not of the best quality. There are not enough line diagrams or drawings to illustrate the text and because of this, like many textbooks of this sort they tend to date relatively easily. The book, however, has included with it a DVD that contains 16 separate videos each well produced, demonstrating common, essential and advanced techniques all of which complement the text very well. Learning surgery from a written description is almost impossible without the global picture that live surgery or videos bring. This greatly enhances the whole experience of the book and makes it well worth reading. The authors say that every urologist should have this book. I am not sure that I would go that far but agree that all departments should have this book. It is helpful and practical both for the everyday urologist and the endourological surgeon. It is also essential reading for residents who are working for their board or final fellowship exams.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.192
Threshold uncertainty score0.349

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.090
GPT teacher head0.330
Teacher spread0.239 · 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