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Record W3202452951 · doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0009287

Multiphase evaluation of portable medicines quality screening devices

2021· editorial· en· W3202452951 on OpenAlexfundno aff
Céline Caillet, Serena Vickers, Stephen Zambrzycki, Nantasit Luangasanatip, Vayouly Vidhamaly, Kem Boutsamay, Phonepasith Boupha, Yoel Lubell, Facundo M. Fernández, Paul N. Newton

Bibliographic record

VenuePLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2021
Typeeditorial
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicPharmaceutical Quality and Counterfeiting
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersDepartment for International DevelopmentWellcome TrustWellcomeDepartment of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australian GovernmentAustralian GovernmentGovernment of the United KingdomGovernment of CanadaAsian Development Bank
KeywordsCounterfeitEssential medicinesPublic healthMedicineBusinessCounterfeit DrugsQuality (philosophy)PandemicProduct (mathematics)Environmental healthDiseaseCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)Infectious disease (medical specialty)Law

Abstract

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Substandard and falsified (SF) medicines have important but neglected consequences including increased morbidity and mortality, economic losses, and diminished public confidence in health systems. SF antimicrobials, particularly those containing reduced quantities of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), may also be key but overlooked drivers of antimicrobial resistance Substandard medicines result from negligence and errors made during the manufacturing process by authorized manufacturers or degradation in supply chains. Falsified medicines are the result of criminal activity. Falsified medicines purport to be real, authorized medicines but are deliberately and fraudulently mislabeled with respect to their identity and/ or source Falsified medicines usually have packaging that are copies of a genuine product and may contain the APIs, although often at the incorrect amount, or, more commonly, they contain other API(s) or none at all. The term "falsified medicines," adopted by the World Health Assembly in May 2017, references the public health issues of poor quality medicines rather than the term "counterfeit" that refers to trademark infringement. As countermeasures vary according to the type of "defect," understanding the differences between the types of poor quality medicines is essential from a public health and regulatory perspective.

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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)0.018
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.042
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: Editorial · Consensus signal: Editorial
Teacher disagreement score0.018
Threshold uncertainty score0.094

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0180.042
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.002
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0040.003
Open science0.0020.001
Research integrity0.0120.006
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.002

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 head0.114
GPT teacher head0.434
Teacher spread0.320 · 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
GenreEditorial

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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Published2021
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