Early detection of SARS-CoV-2 infection cases or outbreaks at nursing homes by targeted wastewater tracking
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SciScore for 10.1101/2021.01.21.21249640: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement IRB: Ethical approval for this study was waived by the Hospital Clínico Universitario INCLIVA Ethics Committee because RT-PCR testing either for diagnosis purposes or surveillance of both nursing home residents and staff are usual practices at health Department Clínico-Malvarrosa, Valencia, Spain. Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable 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 …SciScore for 10.1101/2021.01.21.21249640: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement IRB: Ethical approval for this study was waived by the Hospital Clínico Universitario INCLIVA Ethics Committee because RT-PCR testing either for diagnosis purposes or surveillance of both nursing home residents and staff are usual practices at health Department Clínico-Malvarrosa, Valencia, Spain. Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable 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:The main limitation of the current study is the relatively limited number of NH recruited for the study. In conclusion, this pilot study proved that intermittent or persistent detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in NH sewage drains often anticipates declaration of individual cases or outbreaks. Frequent SARS-CoV-2 RT-qPCR sewage testing coupled with targeted screening of residents and staff may prove useful for early blunting of virus transmission and spread at NH. Further studies with a larger site sample are warranted to confirm this assumption.
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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- No protocol registration statement was detected.
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