Incidence of Guillain-Barré Syndrome After COVID-19 Vaccination in the Vaccine Safety Datalink

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    Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.

    Table 1: Rigor

    EthicsIRB: This activity was approved by the Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) with a waiver of informed consent at Kaiser Permanente: Colorado, Northern California, Northwest, Southern California, and Washington; Marshfield Clinic; HealthPartners; and Denver Health.
    Consent: This activity was approved by the Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) with a waiver of informed consent at Kaiser Permanente: Colorado, Northern California, Northwest, Southern California, and Washington; Marshfield Clinic; HealthPartners; and Denver Health.
    Sex as a biological variablenot detected.
    Randomizationnot detected.
    Blindingnot detected.
    Power Analysisnot 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:
    Limitations: This study had several limitations. First, as mentioned above, substantially fewer doses of Ad.26.COV2.S were administered relative to mRNA vaccines, resulting in reduced statistical power and wide confidence intervals for some analyses. Second, in this observational study recipients of Ad.26.COV2.S may have differed from recipients of mRNA vaccines in unknown ways that affect GBS risk but were not adjusted for in analyses. Third, the incidence rate of confirmed GBS during the COVID-19 pandemic has not been established, and may differ from pre-pandemic background rates. Fourth, we could not identify subgroups who may be at greatest risk for GBS after Ad.26.COV2.S given the small number of confirmed GBS cases identified in this surveillance. Fifth, this analysis only included GBS cases after primary COVID-19 vaccination and results may not be generalizable to additional or booster doses.

    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.


    Results from rtransparent:
    • Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • No protocol registration statement was detected.

    Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.


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