Evaluation of a Pediatric Facial Paralysis Education and Family Support Day
Bibliographic record
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Facial paralysis impairs the mimetic functions of the facial musculature. In pediatric patients, free functioning muscle transfer neurotized with an intact contralateral facial nerve is the gold standard for smile reanimation. In response to requests from families of children with facial paralysis, the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the Hospital for Sick Children hosted an inaugural "Facial Paralysis Family Day." The objective was to create an opportunity for families to meet, exchange stories, and build support networks. METHODS: This study was a quality improvement project to conduct a needs assessment and evaluate the feasibility and satisfaction of implementing a family support intervention for individuals living with facial paralysis. RESULTS: The needs assessment demonstrated that families were most interested in advances in medicine, therapy and coping sessions and meeting other families. The post-event evaluation questionnaire indicated that attendees enjoyed the event, would attend again and found it highly valuable connecting and networking other families. It also indicated that key needs identified were addressed, with excellent ratings for the presentation discussing advances in medicine (100% rated "good" or "very good"), the therapy sessions (92% rated "good" or "very good") and the presentations by patients and their families (100% rated "good" or "very good.") DISCUSSION:: Two areas of improvement highlighted were elaborating further on medical advances and facilitating interactions between families. Overall, this event was well regarded and will likely be repeated at our institution and serve as a valuable resource for other hospitals planning to organize a similar event.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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".