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Record W4413244143 · doi:10.3138/ccar.v15i2.067

Public Health Inquiries and the Class Action Fall-Out

2020· article· en· W4413244143 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Barry Glaspell

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Class Action Review · 2020
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicMedical Malpractice and Liability Issues
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsClass actionClass (philosophy)CommissionCertificationAction (physics)LiabilityPublic healthPublic relationsSubject (documents)Political scienceLawMedicineNursingEpistemologyComputer science

Abstract

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Abstract: Canada has a robust history of public inquiries into health failures, whether specific or systemic. Inquiries play a key role in guiding health care policy. Announcement of a public health inquiry almost inevitably triggers issuance of a proposed class action. Class counsel, often involved in the commission, seek to use the inquiry’s findings as “some basis in fact” to justify class certification. As they are neither intended to make findings of civil liability nor subject to rigorous evidentiary standards, public health inquiries don’t necessarily make solid foundations for fair and efficient class actions.

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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)0.090
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.159
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.934
Threshold uncertainty score0.887

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0900.159
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0090.007
Science and technology studies0.0170.022
Scholarly communication0.0200.005
Open science0.0060.004
Research integrity0.0170.018
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0090.001

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 head0.472
GPT teacher head0.496
Teacher spread0.024 · 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 designNot applicable
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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