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Record W4411288882 · doi:10.2337/db25-1444-p

1444-P: Impact of Semaglutide Shortage in Canadian Adults and Response in a Community Endocrinology Setting (SCARCITY Study)

2025· article· en· W4411288882 on OpenAlexaffabout
Akshay Jain, Hiba Rajpar, H. Singh

Bibliographic record

VenueDiabetes · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicDiabetes Treatment and Management
Canadian institutionsSurrey Memorial Hospital
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSemaglutideEconomic shortageScarcityInternal medicineMedicineEndocrinologyGerontologyDiabetes mellitusEconomicsType 2 diabetesPhilosophy

Abstract

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Introduction and Objective: Semaglutide once-weekly(SOW)/Ozempic is used for the management of T2DM and/or obesity (off-label) in Canada. There was a supply shortage of SOW during Oct 2023- Jan 2024. We aimed to explore the glycemic impact, management changes and sentiments related to the shortage. Methods: A phone survey of 159 consenting adults prescribed SOW for T2DM and/or obesity Results: Forty-six (28.9%) said they were affected by the shortage and had to either stop, lower the dose or switch drugs. Those affected were more likely to feel that SOW should be equally accessible to both-those with T2DM and obesity; and had higher shortage-related dissatisfaction. HbA1c was not significantly different between those affected and not affected. Conclusion: Canadians affected by SOW shortage did not feel more strongly that it should only be used for those with T2DM. Glycemic control did not significantly worsen due to the ~4months of drug shortage Disclosure A.B. Jain: Advisory Panel; Abbott. Speaker's Bureau; Abbott. Research Support; Abbott. Advisory Panel; Novo Nordisk. Research Support; Novo Nordisk. Speaker's Bureau; Novo Nordisk. Research Support; AstraZeneca, Amgen Inc. Speaker's Bureau; Amgen Inc. Advisory Panel; Amgen Inc. Research Support; Sanofi. Advisory Panel; Bausch Health. Speaker's Bureau; Bausch Health. Advisory Panel; Bayer Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Speaker's Bureau; Bayer Pharmaceuticals, Inc, Boehringer-Ingelheim. Advisory Panel; Dexcom, Inc. Speaker's Bureau; Dexcom, Inc. Advisory Panel; Eli Lilly and Company. Speaker's Bureau; Eli Lilly and Company. Advisory Panel; HLS Therapeutics. Speaker's Bureau; HLS Therapeutics, Medtronic. Advisory Panel; Insulet Corporation. Speaker's Bureau; Insulet Corporation. Advisory Panel; Sandoz. K. Fan: None. H. Rajpar: None. H. Singh: None. L. Beltran: None.

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation 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 score0.018
Threshold uncertainty score0.134

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.003
Science and technology studies0.0040.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.001

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 head0.294
Teacher spread0.284 · 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 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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