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Record W4410215349 · doi:10.1093/pch/pxaf015

A 10-year-old boy with profound anaemia and abdominal pain

2025· article· en· W4410215349 on OpenAlexaff
Safia Ladha, Orlee R. Guttman

Bibliographic record

VenuePaediatrics & Child Health · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicGastrointestinal disorders and treatments
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineAbdominal painPediatricsInternal medicine

Abstract

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A 10-year-old boy was referred to a pediatrician for a 2-month history of episodic abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, and intermittent hematochezia and black stools, interspersed with normal bowel movements. He had no diarrhoea, fevers, rashes or travel history, and review of systems was otherwise negative. His past medical history was unremarkable. Family history identified thalassemia trait in the boy’s father but no GI or autoimmune illnesses. The boy’s initial haemoglobin was 102 g/L and he was started on oral iron supplementation. Other investigations included TTG (<0.5 U/mL), faecal calprotectin (<19 ug/g), CRP (<0.6 mg/L) and albumin (45 g/L). FOBT was negative. He was diagnosed with constipation shortly after his initial paediatrics visit. A 2-week course of stool softener led to worsening of his abdominal pain and nausea so this was discontinued. He was referred for consultation with paediatric gastroenterology (GI). At the time of GI consultation 2 months later, his haemoglobin was 56 g/L with ferritin 14 ug/L. During the time leading up to GI consultation, his haemoglobin ranged between 56 and 80 g/L despite oral iron. He continued to have abdominal pain, and intermittent hematochezia and black stools. The black stools were difficult to interpret since he was taking oral iron. He was fatigued but had no new symptoms. Shortly after seeing GI, he received an iron infusion and subsequently endocolonoscopy with normal biopsies. Capsule endoscopy was then pursued but did not identify any bleeding source.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Case report · Consensus signal: Case report
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.005
Threshold uncertainty score0.016

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0030.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.002
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0020.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.002

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 head0.007
GPT teacher head0.260
Teacher spread0.253 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designCase report
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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