SOGC POLICY STATEMENT Fetal Sex Determination and Disclosure
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In Canada, diagnostic ultrasound units are inconsistent intheir policies on determination and disclosure of fetal sex to the pregnant woman. Review of the fetal perineum, including sex determination, is considered part of the complete obstetric ultrasound1; however, if no abnormalities are seen but determination is inconclusive, the examination should not be prolonged or repeated solely to determine fetal sex. The Supreme Court of Canada (McInerney v. MacDonald 1992) concluded that a patient is entitled to examine and copy from his or her medical record all information the physician considered in administering advice or treatment.2 The physician must justify denying access to that record on the basis that doing so would not be in the patient’s best interest. On the basis of this ruling, it is legally difficult to defend nondisclosure. Disclosure of fetal sex upon request
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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 | 0.020 | 0.065 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.013 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.064 | 0.023 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.027 | 0.023 |
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".