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Record W4409345053 · doi:10.3389/fpain.2025.1579155

Outcome assessment in veterinary pain studies: a pain in animals workshop (PAW) perspective

2025· article· en· W4409345053 on OpenAlexaff
Dottie C. Brown, Johann F. Coetzee, M. Gill, Craig Johnson, Diksha Mohapatra, Michael L. Oshinsky, Stuart Robertson, Emily R. Smith, B. Duncan X. Lascelles

Bibliographic record

VenueFrontiers in Pain Research · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldVeterinary
TopicVeterinary Orthopedics and Neurology
Canadian institutionsVancouver Coastal Health
FundersNorth Carolina State University
KeywordsPerspective (graphical)Veterinary medicineMedicinePain assessmentPain managementPhysical therapyComputer scienceArtificial intelligence

Abstract

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Biennially, the Pain in Animals Workshop (PAW) forum brings together scientists and clinicians to focus, across veterinary species and humans, on our shared passion of improving health through our ability to recognize and monitor pain. This collaboration has been instrumental in sharing current knowledge, identifying gaps, and aligning on the best paths forward in this challenging space. At the 2023 PAW held at the National Institutes of Health, Dr Dottie Brown delivered the inaugural Dr. Michele Sharkey PAW Lecture: “ Outcome Assessment in Veterinary Pain Studies: The Yellow Brick Road Continues ”. This perspectives article captures the content of that inaugural lecture and provides a reflection on how the PAW forums have been integral to the most recent wave of knowledge gain and awareness.

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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)0.060
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.010
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch, Meta-epidemiology (narrow), Research integrity
Consensus categoriesMetaresearch
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.390
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0600.010
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0030.003
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.003
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 head0.255
GPT teacher head0.516
Teacher spread0.261 · 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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

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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