Bibliographic record
Abstract
Barbara J. Cadario, Anne M. Leathem, editors Vancouver: BC Drug and Poison Information Centre; 2003. 1445 pp; $65 (paper) ISBN 0-9699644-2-0 Rating: *** Audience: Health professionals Content: Cadario and Leathem have developed a practical guide to frequently used prescription and nonprescription medications available in Canada, as well as to some herbal preparations. Many drug information handbooks tend to be overly inclusive in describing drug characteristics, adverse effects and interactions, making comparisons between individual agents within a therapeutic class difficult. Like most drug references, this text is organized as a collection of evidence-based monographs of individual drugs, but this approach is balanced with a “user-friendly” series of general monographs comparing agents within a therapeutic class. Strengths: The clarity of presentation and the scope of practical information are excellent. Entries are organized alphabetically by generic drug name and are described in a concise and consistent format. The drug information needs of the spectrum of health professionals are anticipated in each monograph. For each agent, tables list potential drug interactions and the nature, mechanism and relevance of these interactions. Monographs also include sections on use in special populations, nursing implications for patient monitoring and patient instructions. A great deal of repetition is eliminated by the editors' organization of the monographs by generic rather than proprietary name. The index adequately cross-references Canadian (but not US) proprietary and generic names with the drug monographs. Limitations: Although the general monographs comparing agents within a therapeutic class are a unique and valuable aspect of this text, the scope of each class appears arbitrary. For example, the general monograph for antipsychotics overviews both the older typical and the newer atypical agents, whereas for antidepressant agents the class comparison is limited to SSRIs only. This is not an exhaustive index of all drugs available in Canada; while most new agents are represented, many older drugs are absent. The text is a valuable supplement to, but not a replacement for, the Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties. Jim Owen Pharmacologist Department of Psychiatry Queen's University Kingston, Ont. For information on how to obtain a copy of this book, please contact the BC Drug and Poison Information Centre at ac.cb.ncv@cipd
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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 | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.008 | 0.010 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.230 | 0.271 |
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".