Transverse mini-incision for carpal tunnel release
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Background: The aim of this study was to compare the outcomes of transverse mini-incision and traditional mini-palm incision for Carpal tunnel release. Methods: A case-control study was done at Kurmitola General Hospital, Dhaka, and at US Bangla Medical College Hospital, Narayangonj between January 2019 to December 2021. A total of 42 patients diagnosed with idiopathic CTS were equally allocated in the transverse mini-incision group (case) and traditional mini-palm incision group (control). Results: Patients operated with transverse mini-incision returned to their work significantly earlier (10.3±2.1 days) than patients operated with traditional mini-palm incision (18.7±2.3 days). No significant difference was found between group I and group II McGill pain score improvement (P=0.16) and BCTQ symptom severity score and functional severity score (P=0.61 and P=0.43 respectively). Conclusion: We conclude that no significant difference was found regarding pain, symptom, and functional outcome between the two groups. Hence, patients in group I returned early to work. Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Journal 2023;16(3): 167-171
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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
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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