Code Repairs before Clinical Recalibration

Abstract

In occupational hearing-risk assessment, a convincing output can still be invalid when a successful patch silently changing the risk denominator. A bounded review of the literature is used to formulate, rather than claim to complete, an evaluation. The primary literature contributes a bounded result: the accessible publication describes 7139 initially recruited noise-exposed subjects and longitudinal and external evaluation; baseline 3-kHz and 3–6-kHz measures contribute prognostic information. Execution verifies a property of code against an environment and a set of tests. It does not automatically verify the scientific question, the endpoint definition, or untested requirements. Connect tests to substantive requirements and include invalid-data fixtures. Audit repaired code for changed meaning, not just successful completion. The proposed comparison concerns hearing-risk code, unit tests, calibration curves; it would test whether the specific failure scenario is detected without erasing legitimate uncertainty. Implications are restricted to the evidence roles relevant to occupational hearing-risk assessment, leaving broader efficacy and deployment claims unresolved.