Exploring the Role of Respiratory therapists (RT) in Critical Care across North America
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Critically ill adults admitted into the intensive care unit (ICU) require continuous monitoring and therapies to prevent disease progression and allow for recovery. Respiratory therapists (RTs) are specialized healthcare providers on the interdisciplinary care team. Their main role in the ICU includes providing interventions to support patients' respiratory or oxygen needs. Additional services they may provide encompass consultations and specialized procedures to aid patients' recovery and mitigate disease progression. However, their overall practice role, regional practice variations and inclusion in the multidisciplinary team are not well reported in the literature. The objective of this scoping review is to describe the roles of RTs in adult critical care, the guidelines for RTs in the critical care team, and the regional differences in RTs’ practice roles across North America (Canada and United States).
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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 | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.011 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
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".