Epidemiology of viral respiratory infections and preventative measures in high-acuity units
Bibliographic record
Abstract
We retrospectively studied the epidemiology and preventative measures in adult and paediatric patients admitted to high-acuity units in Winnipeg, Manitoba. A total of 307 specimens were received, respiratory viruses were detected in 112 individual patient charts (39.4%). The aetiology varied by age-group with mixed viral and bacterial infection, or multiple viral infections noted in 33.3% and 39% in adults and paediatric patients, respectively. Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and rhinovirus were detected in 23% and 13% of paediatric patients, whereas influenza and parainfluenza were detected in 6.4% and 5.9% of adult patients, respectively. Influenza vaccination was noted in the charts of 7.8% of adults and 55.8% of children. In total, 34 (58%) paediatric patients and 11 (22%) adult patients had documented infection control orders, with 31 (92%) and four (36%) of these meeting regional guidelines, respectively. This study showed divergent viral aetiology based on age-group, as well as an opportunity to improve healthcare personnel knowledge and documentation of vaccination and infection control protocol.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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.
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".