Patterns of COVID-19 related excess mortality in the municipalities of Northern Italy during the first wave of the pandemic
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SciScore for 10.1101/2020.05.11.20097964: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.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:Our study presents some caveats. First, it is based on incomplete territorial coverage, therefore our conclusions could have been partially different if data for all municipalities was available. However, our data cover >87% of Italian municipalities, which is a relevant coverage. We used linear regression to derive a mortality trend …
SciScore for 10.1101/2020.05.11.20097964: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.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:Our study presents some caveats. First, it is based on incomplete territorial coverage, therefore our conclusions could have been partially different if data for all municipalities was available. However, our data cover >87% of Italian municipalities, which is a relevant coverage. We used linear regression to derive a mortality trend from 5 years, which could not always be adequate as it may be leveraged by anomalous mortality figures in the first or in the last year of the time interval used for prediction. By using linear regression, we intended to capture a trend in mortality where it exists, and in these cases its prediction is more accurate than the projection of the average mortality observed in the previous five years. In addition, we reduced potential confounding by estimating excess mortality within subgroups defined by age class and gender. Nevertheless, our results should be considered as provisional estimates until official data of verified quality covering all municipalities will be released and made available to researchers for further investigations.
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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