Assessment of patient waiting times for vascular surgery.
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: To assess patient waiting times for vascular surgery and to determine if complications of the disease develop while the patients are awaiting surgery. DESIGN: Prospective cohort study. SETTING: A university-affiliated tertiary care institution. PATIENTS: All 554 patients who underwent scheduled vascular surgical procedures between April 1995 and October 1996. OUTCOME MEASURES: A literature review carried out to develop guidelines for acceptable waiting times for surgery associated with various vascular disorders based on their natural history (benchmark target); actual waiting times, defined as the interval from the date each patient was booked for surgery to the date of admission to hospital for the procedure; the proportion of patients admitted within the benchmark targets; and whether prolonged waiting time placed patients at risk for complications of their disease. RESULTS: Of the 554 patients, 382 (69%) were admitted within the benchmark waiting times. Of 84 patients having an abdominal aortic aneurysm, the aneurysm ruptured during the waiting period in 6, and 4 of them died, for a complication rate of 7% and a death rate of 5%. Two of the 6 aneurysms ruptured after the patient had waited longer than the target time. Three of 100 patients with symptomatic carotid artery stenosis awaiting admission for carotid endarterectomy suffered ischemic stroke, for a 3% complication rate; all had waited longer than the target period. One patient suffered occlusion of a femoropopliteal bypass graft while awaiting revision of a stenosed bypass graft. CONCLUSIONS: This study suggests that although most patients are admitted for operation within the benchmark time, one-third are admitted late and may suffer serious complications of their disease while awaiting admission for the procedure.
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Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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