Bibliographic record
Abstract
This is the second edition of a paperback on the increasingly prevalent chronic condition of diabetes. The book author is a Professor of Endocrinology and Metabolism at the University of Manitoba, Canada. The author’s objective is to ‘provide the practical aspect to translate guideline dissemination into daily implementation’, acknowledging that evidence-based clinical guidelines are broad-based and therefore not practical. The target audience is all healthcare professionals involved in diabetes care. The book covers all important aspects of clinical diabetes care. The individual chapters examine the organization of diabetes care in the community and in the hospital, the use of technology in the management of diabetes, the acute and chronic complications of diabetes, and treatment considerations in the elderly and pregnancy. Each chapter starts with an abstract which summarizes key concepts and ends with a reference list of major sources. Real-life case studies are used where appropriate to enhance understanding and consolidate learning. The text is supplemented with informative tables; this includes an easy-reference 17-page table of all currently available oral and injectable medications, outlining their mechanism of action, dose, action time, benefits and disadvantages. The book can be read from cover to cover, but it is also easy to dip into to locate information of interest. The book is written in clear language and is comprehensive, yet succinct. It has an international focus, though the reader can discern Canadian nuances in terminology and practice, reflecting the origins of the author. I read with interest the chapter on diabetes and technology. The technological advancements in the monitoring and management of diabetes are a rapidly evolving field which have transformed the lives of people with diabetes. The uses of continuous and flash glucose monitoring, insulin pumps and automated options on insulin pumps are some of the advancements described and explained. The development of future technologies offers bewildering opportunities in improving both the quality and length of life for people with diabetes. As the book is primarily aimed at clinicians delivering diabetes care, not all content is relevant to occupational health practice. Furthermore, although the impact of diabetes on aspects of an individual’s life, including work, is recognized, the implications of diabetes on employment are not examined in any depth. Nevertheless, the book provides an easy-to-understand and informative resource on practical diabetes care for occupational health professionals to navigate. ★★☆☆ (Reference only)
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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 | 0.002 | 0.011 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.088 | 0.045 |
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".