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Record W3165484611 · doi:10.1136/bcr-2020-240848

Nosocomial transmission of necrotising fasciitis organisms from prepartum patient to healthcare worker

2021· article· en· W3165484611 on OpenAlexaff
Jacques X. Zhang, Connor McSweeney, Kevin Bush

Bibliographic record

VenueBMJ Case Reports · 2021
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicStreptococcal Infections and Treatments
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNecrotising fasciitisMedicineFasciitisHealthcare workerTransmission (telecommunications)Health careDebridement (dental)Intensive care medicinePersonal protective equipmentIntensive careMedical emergencySurgeryDiseasePathologyInfectious disease (medical specialty)Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Abstract

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Necrotising fasciitis is an aggressive skin and soft tissue infection requiring urgent surgical treatment, resuscitative efforts and intensive care management. We herein present a case of necrotising fasciitis with nosocomial transmission of causative organisms from patient to healthcare worker. Bacterial transmission from human to human despite personal protective equipment is quite rare, and with limited reports in the literature. The patient was also prepartum, representing to our knowledge, one of only a handful of cases of prepartum necrotising fasciitis. Recommendations to avoid healthcare worker transmission include wearing Association of the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation level 4 gowns during debridement, as well as eye protection and changing scrubs and showering between cases.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

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)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Case report · Consensus signal: Case report
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.356
Threshold uncertainty score0.788

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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 head0.024
GPT teacher head0.329
Teacher spread0.306 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designCase report
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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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