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Record W4415438820 · doi:10.1302/1358-992x.2025.10.114

ORTHOPAEDIC OUTREACH IN NUNAVUT

2025· article· en· W4415438820 on OpenAlexaffabout
K. Roscoe, Matthew Di Silvestro

Bibliographic record

VenueOrthopaedic Proceedings · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicGlobal Health Workforce Issues
Canadian institutionsQueensway-Carleton Hospital
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTriageHip replacementOutreachKnee replacementJoint replacementOrthopedic surgery

Abstract

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Prior to 2015, Nunavut patients had to travel twice from their remote communities to Iqaluit, and then to Ottawa in order to undergo a joint replacement; once for an assessment and then again for the surgery. Wait time to assessment was eighteen months and the cost of this was $1700 per patient. In 2015, the Regional Hip and Knee Replacement Program of the Champlain Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) began a traveling Total Joint Assessment Clinic (TJAC) to Iqaluit, Nunavut to reduce wait times, and cost for Nunavut residents with hip and knee arthritis. In 2015 the Regional Hip and Knee Replacement Program of the Champlain Local Health Integration Network (LHIN), in collaboration with Ottawa Health Services Network Inc. (OHSNI) partnered to operate a TJAC in Iqaluit, NU. TJAC is a triage clinic for patients with hip or knee arthritis who are potential Joint Replacement candidates. A TJAC team of one Assessor and one Orthopaedic Surgeon travel to Iqaluit, NU three times per year to perform TJAC assessments for Nunavut elders and residents. Each clinic lasts a week. All patients are seen by the TJAC Physiotherapist assessor, and surgical candidates see the surgeon the same day Average wait time to consult has been reduced from eighteen months to seven months. Per patient cost of TJAC visits have been reduced from $1700 to $500. This collaboration between the Regional Hip and Knee Replacement Program and Ottawa Health Services Network has facilitated a more rapid access to hip and knee replacement surgery for Nunavut resident by reducing wait times significantly. It has also reduced the cost per patient for these services. A Central Intake referral service is currently being discussed in order to improve timely access to the appropriate Orthopaedic service for all orthopaedic conditions at each Orthopaedic clinic in Iqaluit.

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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)0.002
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: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.075
Threshold uncertainty score0.173

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0120.002
Scholarly communication0.0030.001
Open science0.0020.006
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0330.002

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 head0.023
GPT teacher head0.386
Teacher spread0.363 · 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
GenreOther

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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