Antibiotic Prescribing Patterns at COVID-19 Dedicated Wards in Bangladesh: Findings from a Single Center Study
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Institutional Review Board Statement Consent: No patient was interviewed during the study and hence informed written consent was waived.
IRB: This study was approved by the ethical review board at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital.Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable Following values were considered as normal for aforementioned biochemical markers – neutrophil (45-70%), lymphocyte (20-40%), CRP (<10 mg/l), d-dimer (≤0.5 considered as negative screening), and serum ferritin (for men 24-336 µgm/l; for female 11-307 µgm/l). Table 2: Resources
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources For this study, statistical analysis was done using … SciScore for 10.1101/2021.01.15.21249868: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement Consent: No patient was interviewed during the study and hence informed written consent was waived.
IRB: This study was approved by the ethical review board at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital.Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable Following values were considered as normal for aforementioned biochemical markers – neutrophil (45-70%), lymphocyte (20-40%), CRP (<10 mg/l), d-dimer (≤0.5 considered as negative screening), and serum ferritin (for men 24-336 µgm/l; for female 11-307 µgm/l). Table 2: Resources
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources For this study, statistical analysis was done using statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) software version 25. statistical Package for the Social Sciencessuggested: NoneSPSSsuggested: (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:There are several limitations to this PPS study. Due to archaic method of data collection, storage and preservation in Bangladeshi hospitals, extracting meaningful data from patient history sheets were often impossible. Furthermore, the researchers did not record the route of administration, whether the patient was on oxygen therapy, or presence of co-infection in surveyed patients. Besides, this was a single center study. For a comprehensive outlook on antibiotic usage in Bangladeshi hospitals several other centers should have been included. Unfortunately, this was beyond the scope of this survey study. But future research into antimicrobial stewardship programs in Bangladeshi hospitals should take these shortcomings into consideration and perform a comprehensive analysis of overall antimicrobial usage situation in Bangladesh.
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.
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- No protocol registration statement was detected.
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