16.3 Effects of resynchronyzation therapy (upgrading) in patients with conventional pacing
Bibliographic record
Abstract
When evaluating the clinical impact of cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT), it is of paramount importance to ascertain the potential for significant reduction in morbidity and mortality.Also of importance, is the total cost of treatment of patient with severe congestive heart failure (NYHA 3-4).To look at this question, we used a mathematic model after obtaining costs for optimal pharmacologic therapy, medical care, laboratory and diagnostic tests and hospitalization for complications from centers across Canada.We identified 3 groups of patients: uncomplicated (U), complicated (C) [requiring hospitalization] and progressive worsening leading to death (PD).Total cost ($ Can) for each group were: U = 1558-2097; C = 14104-16355; PD = 38610-46315.Any reduction in testing and hospitalization in patients with heart failure clearly has a significant impact to the total cost of heart failure.Conclusion: using the true cost of managing heart failure patients in class 3 and 4, the more liberal use of CRT could represent important cost saving apart from their clinical important improvement in morbidity and possibly mortality.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
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 | 0.000 | 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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
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 teacher head, 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".