Prevalence and Clinical Presentation of Health Care Workers With Symptoms of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in 2 Dutch Hospitals During an Early Phase of the Pandemic
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SciScore for 10.1101/2020.03.23.20041913: (What is this?)
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Institutional Review Board Statement IRB: The study was reviewed by the Ethics Committee Brabant, the Netherlands (METC Brabant/20.134/NW2020-26).
Consent: The study was judged to be beyond the scope of the Medical Research Involving Human Subjects Act and a waiver of written informed consent was granted.Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable Study design: A cross-sectional study with short-term follow-up was conducted in two teaching hospitals (700-bed Amphia Hospital, Breda, the Netherlands; 800-bed Elisabeth-TweeSteden Hospital, Tilburg, the Netherlands), employing 9,705 HCWs, 18% of whom are male (Figure 1). Table 2: Resources
… SciScore for 10.1101/2020.03.23.20041913: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement IRB: The study was reviewed by the Ethics Committee Brabant, the Netherlands (METC Brabant/20.134/NW2020-26).
Consent: The study was judged to be beyond the scope of the Medical Research Involving Human Subjects Act and a waiver of written informed consent was granted.Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable Study design: A cross-sectional study with short-term follow-up was conducted in two teaching hospitals (700-bed Amphia Hospital, Breda, the Netherlands; 800-bed Elisabeth-TweeSteden Hospital, Tilburg, the Netherlands), employing 9,705 HCWs, 18% of whom are male (Figure 1). Table 2: Resources
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources All analyses were performed with SPSS version 25.0 (IBM, Armonk, NY, USA). SPSSsuggested: (SPSS, RRID:SCR_002865)Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:A limitation of our evaluation is that screening of HCWs was based on the presence of fever or mild respiratory symptoms in the last ten days, and that no data were collected in HCWs without these symptoms. The sensitivity and specificity of the reported symptoms could therefore not be estimated. In conclusion, during the containment phase and within two weeks after the first Dutch case was detected, a substantial proportion of HCWs with fever or respiratory symptoms were infected with SARS-CoV-2, probably caused by acquisition of the virus in the community during the early phase of local spread. This observation confirms the insidious nature of SARS-CoV-2 spread, given the high prevalence of mild clinical presentations that may go undetected.8 The spectrum of relatively mild symptoms present in HCWs with COVID-19, frequently not including fever, asks for less stringent use of the currently recommended case-definition for suspected COVID-19.
Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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