COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH SURGICAL SITE INFECTIONS AMONG SOLID ORGAN TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS: A SCOPING REVIEW PROTOCOL
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Objective: To map the available evidence regarding the direct costs associated with the treatment of surgical site infections among adult solid organ transplant recipients. Introduction: Surgical site infections (SSIs) compromise the recovery of solid organ transplant recipients and are a significant source of morbidity and mortality. Additionally, SSIs are directly associated with increased healthcare costs and pose a challenge to the sustainability of healthcare systems. Inclusion criteria: This review will include scientific studies involving adult solid organ transplant recipients (aged 18 and over) who received grafts from deceased donors, where the costs related to the occurrence of SSIs have been reported. Observational studies such as exploratory studies, case reports, case series, cross-sectional studies, cohort studies, case-control studies, and before-and-after studies will be included. Intervention studies, including pilot studies, quasi-experimental studies, and randomized controlled trials, will also be eligible. Methods: Electronic databases such as PubMed/Medline, Embase, CINAHL, Scopus, Web of Science, EconLit, and the Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde (BVS) will be searched from their inception without language restrictions. The search strategy has been developed using controlled vocabulary and keywords identified through the Population, Concept, and Context (PCC) framework. Grey literature will also be systematically searched in databases like CAPES Banco de Teses e Dissertações, Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD), the Canadian Dissertation and Thesis Portal, and Google Scholar. The search will be conducted in November 2024. The research question was formulated based on the PCC mnemonic: P - Solid organ transplant recipients; C - Direct costs; C - SSIs treated in the hospital setting. Keywords: Transplante de órgãos; Custos hospitalares; Infecção de ferida cirúrgica.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.450 | 0.205 |
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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".