Post-Pandemic Transformation of Healthcare Delivery in Provinces and Territories
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Abstract
A s i write this, positive signs regarding the pandemic are beginning to affect our daily lives.We are now able to meet with our extended families, friends and neighbours.For many people, these changes signal the end of isolation, fear and loneliness and harken a return to normal life and behaviours.Changes are now also appearing in the healthcare sector.Long-term care homes have been reopened to families and visitors.Homecare visits are returning to their pre-pandemic levels, and hospitals have restarted all elective surgeries.We should celebrate the fact that the delivery of acute and emergency healthcare carried on throughout the pandemic.With some exceptions, cancer-related care continued throughout, trauma care was available and dialysis continued.This occurred even as the focus of governments, organizations and individual providers shifted to the pandemic' s effects on physical and mental health.Many new policies, procedures and physical spaces were used to deliver healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic in order to provide critical care and lessen the risks of transmission within healthcare organizations and among providers, patients, their families and the community.As reopening unfolds, some of the significant challenges facing the federal government, provinces and territories are these: What new practices and behaviours should be retained in the post-pandemic era?How will the changes be paid for? Competing Options for Healthcare DeliveryIt is not yet clear how the pandemic has impacted current federal, provincial and territorial healthcare budgets.While healthcare is already a significant component of provinces' and territories' economies, the guess is that healthcare spending has jumped substantively.For the healthcare sector, the short-term focus will be on provincial and territorial governments' actions and what they signal as their new-normal state for healthcare delivery.- Post-Pandemic Transformation of Healthcare Delivery in Provinces and Territories
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.013 | 0.044 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.014 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.031 | 0.029 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.012 | 0.004 |
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".