Place and Underlying Cause of Death During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Retrospective Cohort Study of 3.5 Million Deaths in England and Wales, 2014 to 2020
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SciScore for 10.1101/2020.08.12.20173302: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement not detected. 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:Nonetheless, our study has limitations. First, during the COVID19 pandemic, emergency guidance enabled any doctor in the UK (not just the attending) to complete the MCCD, the duration of time over which the deceased was not …
SciScore for 10.1101/2020.08.12.20173302: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement not detected. 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:Nonetheless, our study has limitations. First, during the COVID19 pandemic, emergency guidance enabled any doctor in the UK (not just the attending) to complete the MCCD, the duration of time over which the deceased was not seen before referral to the coroner was extended from 14 to 28 days, and causes of death could be “to the best of their knowledge and belief” without diagnostic proof, if appropriate and to avoid delay.30 This may have resulted in inaccurate recording of cause of death. Second, this analysis will have excluded a small proportion of deaths under review by the Coroner, though typically these will have been unnatural in aetiology. Third, we did not have access to laboratory testing data. It is estimated that methods identifying COVID-19 deaths using laboratory-testing data have identified about an additional 1500 deaths during the pandemic period compared to death certificate methods. However, this would only explain a tiny proportion of the non-COVID-19 excess deaths observed in this study.31 The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in major global changes to society and health. These analyses raise important findings for government and the NHS. There was a huge burden of excess deaths occurring in care homes, which were poorly characterised, and were likely to be, at least in part, the result of undiagnosed COVID-19. Effective assessment and testing, along with adequate staffing and infection control measures, in care homes should be a priority in the event of a ...
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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