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Record W4416021598 · doi:10.1177/08968608251390267

Delivering palliative and end-of-life care to patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis: Your questions answered

2025· article· en· W4416021598 on OpenAlexaff
Ismay N. van Loon, Sarbjit V. Jassal

Bibliographic record

VenuePeritoneal Dialysis International · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicDialysis and Renal Disease Management
Canadian institutionsUniversity of TorontoUniversity Health Network
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPeritoneal dialysisNephrologyKidney diseaseHeading (navigation)Palliative careFeelingMEDLINE

Abstract

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Increasingly, nephrologists struggle with providing care to patients with complex diseases who are heading towards the end of life. In this vignette, we illustrate how to recognize and acknowledge disease progression, tailor treatments to frailty status, and extend high-quality kidney care through to the time of death. Questions answered include how to discuss prognosis while retaining feelings of hope, and tips on how to recognize that the end-of-life may be approaching are included as part of the case discussion. We advocate for modest changes to nephrology care guidelines that promote integration of both high clinical standards and holistic and practical kidney care.

Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.

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)0.006
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.041
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: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.016
Threshold uncertainty score0.053

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0060.041
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0050.004
Scholarly communication0.0030.007
Open science0.0020.003
Research integrity0.0160.014
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0160.003

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 head0.015
GPT teacher head0.303
Teacher spread0.288 · 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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