A national consensus management pathway for paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with COVID-19 (PIMS-TS): results of a national Delphi process
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SciScore for 10.1101/2020.07.17.20156075: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement IRB: Ethics approval: This work was considered quality improvement by the Health Research Authority, and therefore approval by an ethics review board was not required. 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:There are however three key limitations to the study. Firstly, the output …
SciScore for 10.1101/2020.07.17.20156075: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement IRB: Ethics approval: This work was considered quality improvement by the Health Research Authority, and therefore approval by an ethics review board was not required. 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:There are however three key limitations to the study. Firstly, the output and recommendations from a Delphi process can only ever be as robust as the statements that are assessed within it. As the statements assessed here were all developed based-upon level five evidence (expert opinion), the guidance can only ever seek to summarise this expert opinion. Once higher levels of evidence become available, these should be incorporated into future guidance in order to ensure that the management pathway remains relevant and up to date. Given the cost-efficient, timely nature of the conducted Delphi process, it would be feasible to re-run the process when significant new data comes to light, and to use the results of the process to inform development of guidance. The second limitation of the study is that a smaller number of participants were recruited from stakeholder groups than would normally be aimed for in conduct of a Delphi process, and the scope of the work precluded inclusion of parents, or members of the public in the process. Despite this, adequate representation was achieved across all panels, with multiple representatives from each stakeholder group participating. However, had time, and the need to ensure clinical expertise of participants not been such pressing factors, it would have been preferable to seek opinions from a larger number of stakeholders. Finally, the consensus meeting included only a few representatives of each stakeholder group due to the online format ...
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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- No protocol registration statement was detected.
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