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Record W2956759306 · doi:10.3899/jrheum.190553

MBDA: A Valuable Tool for Medical Decision Making

2019· letter· en· W2956759306 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Leonard H. Calabrese

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Journal of Rheumatology · 2019
Typeletter
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicRheumatoid Arthritis Research and Therapies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineTest (biology)Rheumatoid arthritisRheumatologyDeskBiomarkerAlternative medicineMedical educationFamily medicineInternal medicineMedical physicsPathology

Abstract

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I read with interest the editorial by Dr. Roy Fleischmann on the limitations of the multibiomarker disease activity test (MBDA) in the management of rheumatoid arthritis (RA)1. He provides a comprehensive review of some of the key studies of MBDA in clinical trials and concludes that the “MBDA has not met the test of being a biomarker that can predict who will or will not respond to a specific therapy, who will or will not be able to taper or stop therapy or who will or will not have radiographic progression.” While overall I tend to agree with him that this biomarker, along with ALL biomarkers, will fail to answer these questions in a binary fashion, I still disagree with his conclusions. Medicine in general and rheumatology in particular are professions immersed in diagnostic and therapeutic uncertainty. Rheumatologists share a ritual when confronting new patients with RA of appraising their disease activity and severity, … Address correspondence to Dr. L.H. Calabrese, Professor of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University 9500 Euclid Ave., Desk A50, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA. E-mail: CALABRL{at}ccf.org

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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)0.028
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.168
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: Commentary
Teacher disagreement score0.028
Threshold uncertainty score0.150

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0280.168
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.002
Bibliometrics0.0030.001
Science and technology studies0.0030.009
Scholarly communication0.0120.020
Open science0.0030.005
Research integrity0.0200.051
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0120.011

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 head0.020
GPT teacher head0.323
Teacher spread0.303 · 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 designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreCommentary

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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Citations3
Published2019
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