Trends in and Factors Associated With Out-of-Pocket Spending for COVID-19 Hospitalizations From March 2020 to March 2021
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Emmeline Chuang
Review 1: "Out-of-Pocket Spending for Health Care Within 90 Days of COVID-19 Hospitalization"
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Reviewers: E Chuang (UC Berkeley) | 📗📗📗📗◻️
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SciScore for 10.1101/2021.06.11.21258766: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Ethics IRB: Because data were de-identified, the Institutional Review Board of the University of Michigan Medical School exempted analyses from human subjects review. Sex as a biological variable not detected. Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Table 2: Resources
No key resources detected.
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:This study has limitations. First, analyses only captured the immediate period after COVID-19 hospitalization. …
SciScore for 10.1101/2021.06.11.21258766: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Ethics IRB: Because data were de-identified, the Institutional Review Board of the University of Michigan Medical School exempted analyses from human subjects review. Sex as a biological variable not detected. Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Table 2: Resources
No key resources detected.
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:This study has limitations. First, analyses only captured the immediate period after COVID-19 hospitalization. Second, the post-discharge period in this study occurred during the early stages of the pandemic, when utilization of health care services decreased sharply owing to social distancing measures and fears of contracting COVID-19.8 Post-discharge utilization, and therefore out-of-pocket spending, might be higher now that utilization is approaching pre-pandemic levels. Third, this study required hospital discharge by June 30, 2020 because a 90-day post-discharge period was needed and claims were complete only through September 30, 2020 at the time of analysis. While necessary, this decision excluded patients with prolonged hospitalizations who may require intensive post-discharge care. Consequently, analyses likely underestimate out-of-pocket burden among all COVID-19 survivors. Finally, patients may not be fully representative of the entire privately insured and Medicare Advantage population.
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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Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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