Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the provision of routine childhood immunizations in Ontario, Canada

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1. Version published to 10.1016/j.vaccine.2021.05.094

   Jul 1, 2021
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   May 16, 2021

   SciScore for 10.1101/2021.05.11.21257048: (What is this?)

   Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.

   Table 1: Rigor

   Ethics	IRB: Approval from The Hospital for Sick Children Research Ethics Board (REB) was obtained for this study (REB 1000070361).
   Sex as a biological variable	Physician’s characteristics collected in the first section of the survey included physician’s specialty (family physician, general pediatrician or pediatric subspecialist), sex (male, female or prefer not to say), years in practice (<5 years, 5-20 years or >20 years) and country of medical training (Canada or outside Canada).
   Randomization	not detected.
   Blinding	not detected.
   Power Analysis	not detected.

   Table 2: Resources

   Software and Algorithms
   Sentences	Resources
   24-27 The survey was designed using Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap) software …

   SciScore for 10.1101/2021.05.11.21257048: (What is this?)

   Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.

   Table 1: Rigor

   Ethics	IRB: Approval from The Hospital for Sick Children Research Ethics Board (REB) was obtained for this study (REB 1000070361).
   Sex as a biological variable	Physician’s characteristics collected in the first section of the survey included physician’s specialty (family physician, general pediatrician or pediatric subspecialist), sex (male, female or prefer not to say), years in practice (<5 years, 5-20 years or >20 years) and country of medical training (Canada or outside Canada).
   Randomization	not detected.
   Blinding	not detected.
   Power Analysis	not detected.

   Table 2: Resources

   Software and Algorithms
   Sentences	Resources
   24-27 The survey was designed using Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap) software (version 10.0.4; Vanderbilt University) and distributed by email as previously described.	REDCap suggested: (REDCap, RRID:SCR_003445)
   Statistical Analysis: Survey responses were analysed using Microsoft Excel (Office 365, Microsoft corp.,	Microsoft Excel suggested: (Microsoft Excel, RRID:SCR_016137)
   Violin plots with medians and interquartile ranges (IQR) were generated using Python’s seaborn package to visualize changes in the proportion of in-person visits before versus during the pandemic.	Python’s suggested: (PyMVPA, RRID:SCR_006099)

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   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).

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   Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:

   Our study has several limitations. First, the low response rate and the potential introduction of selection bias due to the convenience sampling of respondents can limit the external validity and generalizability of our study results. Additionally, practice size and the number of children seen in each practice was not collected from the survey respondents, which limits the quantification of the impact on vaccine coverage at a population-level. Also, while physicians represent a substantial proportion of the HCP providing vaccines to children in Ontario, we have not evaluated the impact on the immunization services provided by nurse practitioners, nurses, and pharmacists. Lastly, in view of the cross-sectional nature of the study, we were only able to capture the immunization practices of physicians within a limited timeframe and during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, well before vaccines against COVID-19 were available.

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   Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.

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   Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.

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   Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.

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   Results from rtransparent:

   • Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
   • Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
   • No protocol registration statement was detected.

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   Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.

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   Version published to 10.1101/2021.05.11.21257048v1 on medRxiv

   May 14, 2021