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Record W3041453950 · doi:10.1017/cbo9780511526961.004

What is risk?

2004· book-chapter· en· W3041453950 on OpenAlexaff
David Mortimer, Sharon T. Mortimer

Bibliographic record

VenueCambridge University Press eBooks · 2004
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicEthics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare
Canadian institutionsAchieve Life Sciences (Canada)
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPrime (order theory)Focus (optics)Risk analysis (engineering)MedicineMathematicsPhysics

Abstract

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Reducing medical errors and enhancing patient and staff safety is a prime focus in modern medicine. But what is “risk”? Put simply, a risk is any uncertainty about a future event that might threaten an organization's ability to accomplish its mission. It is the chance of something happening that will have a negative impact on an organization's objectives. In particular, risk is the possibility of suffering “loss”: loss of quality of outcome, loss of professional regard or profile, loss of referrals, loss of patient/staff health (or even loss of life), loss of profitability, loss of success. It is said that failure is a key part of learning, and that in business risk and opportunity often go hand-in-hand, with risk per se not only being not bad, but even essential to progress. Clearly such a perception of risk “as a good thing” is not acceptable in IVF Centers. Continued developments in reproductive biomedicine, combined with heightened regulatory requirements, have led to more, unexpected, and often complex, risk issues for IVF Centers. It is now more important than ever to be proactive in identifying risk and taking appropriate preventative measures, hence IVF Centers must embrace risk analysis and risk minimization. Together these constitute risk management which is an integral part of total quality management or “TQM” (see Chapter 3) and any ISO 9000 family-compliant quality system or laboratory accreditation scheme.

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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)0.006
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.020
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.009
Threshold uncertainty score0.032

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0060.020
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.019
Scholarly communication0.0090.014
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0050.009
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.003

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 head0.036
GPT teacher head0.272
Teacher spread0.237 · 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 designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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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