COVID-19 related immunization disruptions in Rajasthan, India: A retrospective observational study
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SciScore for 10.1101/2020.12.04.20244327: (What is this?)
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Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement not detected. Randomization Sampled households were randomly assigned to enumerators to avoid enumerator bias. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable Binary subgroups were defined for female sex, low assets (below median index score), at or below 12 years of parent schooling, low caste, and residence in a COVID red zone. 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 …SciScore for 10.1101/2020.12.04.20244327: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement not detected. Randomization Sampled households were randomly assigned to enumerators to avoid enumerator bias. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable Binary subgroups were defined for female sex, low assets (below median index score), at or below 12 years of parent schooling, low caste, and residence in a COVID red zone. 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:This study has several limitations. First, the sample is households with an institutional child delivery under the BSBY government health insurance program and findings may not be representative of Rajasthan’s population. Given that BSBY targets low-income households across the state, this population is of particular policy interest, but it may exclude the poorest households that underutilize health facilities. Second, although phone surveys allowed us to rapidly survey a large sample of households at a time when in-person data collection was impossible, because phone numbers were obtained from administrative records from a year ago, this resulted in substantial attrition in the survey. We expected this at the start of the study and oversampled households for survey. Surveyed households were not significantly different from those we were unable to reach on characteristics available in the administrative records, increasing confidence that attrition did not bias our study sample. Third, the study relied on data from the immunization card and parent reports of immunization status, both of which may be subject to error. We found that estimates of levels of completed immunization coverage from immunization cards were typically higher than those from parent reports, which could reflect biases in either data source, but also real differences in immunization status across these groups. Largescale validations of recall in low income contexts have found that parent-reported immunizati...
Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
Results from Barzooka: We found bar graphs of continuous data. We recommend replacing bar graphs with more informative graphics, as many different datasets can lead to the same bar graph. The actual data may suggest different conclusions from the summary statistics. For more information, please see Weissgerber et al (2015).
Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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