French translation and pilot testing of the CEGSSS: A replicable framework
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Abstract
Introduction: The Canadian Endourology Group Stent Symptom Score (CEGSSS) is a concise questionnaire developed to assess patients’ ureteral stent-related symptoms. To support its worldwide applicability, we present the initial phases of its adaptation to French, offering a replicable framework for future translations. Methods: The original CEGSSS underwent forward-backward translation and was reviewed by a multidisciplinary committee. The pre-final French version (FR-CEGSSS) was pilot-tested in iterative cycles, with French-speaking urologists and patients completing questionnaires to assess the clarity and relevance of its items. Results: The FR-CEGSSS was completed by 15 patients and 6 urologists. Its questions, language and vocabulary were rated as easy or very easy to understand by 93% of patients and 100% of urologists. On relevance, the questionnaire reached a scale-level content validity index of 0.97. Conclusion: We present a transparent, replicable framework for CEGSSS translation. Comprehensive psychometric testing is required for the FR-CEGSSS to be considered valid for clinical and research use. Introduction: Le Canadian Endourology Group Stent Symptom Score (CEGSSS) est un questionnaire concis développé afin d'évaluer les symptômes liés à la pose de sondes urétérales chez les patients. Afin de soutenir son applicabilité à l'échelle mondiale, nous présentons les phases initiales de son adaptation en français, offrant ainsi une méthodologie reproductible pour les futures traductions. Méthodes: La version originale du CEGSSS a fait l'objet d'une traduction avant et à rebours, puis a été révisée par un comité multidisciplinaire. La version pré-finale du CEGSSS français (FR-CEGSSS) a été soumise à un test pilote, par cycles itératifs, où urologues et patients francophones ont complétés des questionnaires afin de statuer sur la clarté et la pertinence des items le composant. Résultats: Le FR-CEGSSS a été complété par 15 patients et 6 urologues. Les questions, la langue et le vocabulaire ont été jugés faciles ou très faciles à comprendre par 93 % des patients et 100 % des urologues. Sur le plan de la pertinence, le questionnaire a atteint un indice de validité de contenu au niveau de l'échelle de 0,97. Conclusion: Nous présentons une méthodologie transparente et reproductible pour la traduction du CEGSSS. Des tests psychométriques complets sont maintenant nécessaires pour que le FR-CEGSSS soit considéré valide pour une utilisation en clinique ou pour la recherche.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 teacher head, not a consensus.
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