The association of primary care continuity with avoidable emergency department visits and hospitalizations for older adults living in Québec: An inverse probability of treatment weighting analysis
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Background: Avoidable hospitalizations, which refer to hospitalizations for a condition that could have been prevented with appropriate and effective primary care, disproportionally occur among older adults.Indeed, about half of avoidable hospitalizations occur among older adults and this number could be on the rise given Canada's population aging.The high prevalence of Thank you to the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupation Therapy and the Graduate Award Program through the Department of Equity, Ethics, and Policy for providing me with incredible learning opportunities.I'm grateful for all the knowledge I acquired during my master's degree.I would like to sincerely thank my supervisors, Dr. Quesnel-Vallée and Dr. Vedel.I am grateful for their guidance and support both academically and emotionally throughout my thesis.Especially, Amélie, who showed constant compassion towards me and trusted my abilities as a researcher.In addition, they encouraged me to pursue extracurricular experiences which greatly added to my graduate experience
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.009 | 0.031 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 0.000 |
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; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".