Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on emergency and elective hip surgeries in Norway
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SciScore for 10.1101/2020.09.11.20191734: (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 Also, to explore whether any hip surgery patient groups may be more affected by lockdown restrictions in terms of their health care use than what could be expected from our analyses of all-cause acute and elective hospitalizations, we stratified the analyses on age (35–69 years vs. 70 and above), for men and women separately. Table 2: Resources
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources We used Stata version 16.1 (StataCorp) for all analyses. StataCorpsuggested: (Stata, RRID:SCR_012763)Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not …
SciScore for 10.1101/2020.09.11.20191734: (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 Also, to explore whether any hip surgery patient groups may be more affected by lockdown restrictions in terms of their health care use than what could be expected from our analyses of all-cause acute and elective hospitalizations, we stratified the analyses on age (35–69 years vs. 70 and above), for men and women separately. Table 2: Resources
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources We used Stata version 16.1 (StataCorp) for all analyses. StataCorpsuggested: (Stata, RRID:SCR_012763)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:Some important limitations should be mentioned. First, we could not study whether the effect of lockdown restrictions is causal. For example, it is possible that the decrease in emergency hip fracture surgeries in men aged 35-69 partly are due to seasonal variations, and we suggest this as a topic for future studies. However, we note that the number of surgeries prior to March 13th 2020 was similar to that reported for previous years (8). Also, our findings only apply to Norwegian conditions and countries having similar health care services, health care organization and demography as Norway. Future studies should explore effects of lockdown restrictions on health care use comparing different countries’ lockdown strategies. A second limitation may be that we could not distinguish between experiencing joint pain and/or an acute event and seeking health care. Thus, as described above, there may be age and sex differences in care-seeking behavior that we could not account for here. Finally, there may be several potential competing risks in our sample. For example, persons hospitalized for cancer treatment may be unlikely to experience a hip fracture because they are more indoors. However, our goal was not to study disease etiology, rather, we give an overview of potential impacts persons in need of hip joint surgery may experience as a result of lockdown restrictions. In conclusion, we show that the lockdown restrictions implemented in Norway due to the spread of Covid-19 pandemi...
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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