Bibliographic record
Abstract
Mental illness is a prevalent and costly health care issue. Lengthy wait times for psychiatric services in Ontario are a barrier to adequate mental health care for adults, children and youth. The objective of this paper is to highlight the current state of psychiatric wait times in Ontario by looking at provincial policies and comparing data to physical health services, as well as between provinces and other developed nations. The Ontario government has successfully implemented mandatory reporting of wait-time data for many medical and surgical services. However, such policies have yet to be implemented for psychiatric services. As a result, availability of current data for comparison is limited. Nova Scotia is currently the only province to government mandate reporting of wait times for mental health. Furthermore, The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ranks Canada below average on measures related to accessibility of psychiatric inpatient services compared to other developed nations. While Ontario has implemented new initiatives to address the issue of timely mental health care, there is still insufficient evidence to determine if they are effective. Continued advocacy for mandatory wait-time reporting at the provincial level and further analysis of current initiatives worldwide are essential steps toward reducing wait times.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.000 |
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.
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; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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".