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Record W4291675766 · doi:10.46747/cfp.6808589

Acute otitis media in children 6 months to 2 years of age

2022· article· en· W4291675766 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Ran D. Goldman

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Family Physician · 2022
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicEar Surgery and Otitis Media
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineOtitisWatchful waitingStreptococcus pneumoniaeAcute otitis mediaPediatricsRespiratory tract infectionsAntibioticsPopulationPneumococcal infectionsIntensive care medicineInternal medicineSurgeryRespiratory system

Abstract

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QUESTION: Acute otitis media (AOM) is one of the most common findings among children in our family medicine office, and we frequently see this illness during seasons with high rates of upper respiratory tract infections. With more widespread pneumococcal immunization, has the rate of AOM declined? What are the current recommendations for antibiotic treatment? ANSWER: , AOM is still prevalent in the pediatric population and may be associated with serious complications that affect hearing and quality of life. Once a diagnosis has been made (based on a combination of acute onset of symptoms, signs of middle ear inflammation, and effusion), treatment of children 6 months to 2 years of age depends on physical examination findings. Children with perforated tympanic membranes and purulent discharge should receive 10 days of systemic antibiotics. For children with more mild symptoms or early AOM, primary care providers should consider either treatment or watchful waiting.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.617
Threshold uncertainty score0.982

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.009
GPT teacher head0.213
Teacher spread0.204 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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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