Temperature-mortality association during and before the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy: A nationwide time-stratified case-crossover study
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SciScore for 10.1101/2020.09.15.20194944: (What is this?)
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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:There are some limitations in this study. First, we did not include the analysis of the disease-specific mortality because the data was not available. Therefore, we did not know the extent of the temperature impact on certain disease-specific mortality in the pandemic. An additional limitation is that this is an ecological study without …
SciScore for 10.1101/2020.09.15.20194944: (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:There are some limitations in this study. First, we did not include the analysis of the disease-specific mortality because the data was not available. Therefore, we did not know the extent of the temperature impact on certain disease-specific mortality in the pandemic. An additional limitation is that this is an ecological study without individual data. Therefore, exposure misclassification is a potential concern. For example, the aggregated ambient temperature at a province-level does not necessarily remain consistent for individuals, specifically for people who may reduce the cold exposure because of keeping the stay-at-home orders during the pandemic. Furthermore, we were unable to make any inference in terms of the possible mechanism pathways governing the association between cold exposure and excess mortality in the pandemic. In conclusion, our findings suggest that COVID-19 pandemic increased the impacts of cold temperatures on mortality in Italy. This means that using the historical exposureresponse relationship between temperature and mortality may underestimate the health impacts of cold temperatures during the COVID-19 pandemic. To date, no sign shows the end of the COVID-19 pandemic before the widespread use of vaccines. Some restrictive social containment measures may continually affect our life and behaviour in the foreseeable future. Therefore, we would expect our findings enable public health agencies to take early actions such as making preparedness for indoor...
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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