Improving COVID-19 vaccination centre operation through computer modelling and simulation
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SciScore for 10.1101/2021.03.24.21253517: (What is this?)
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Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement not detected. 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: Thank you for sharing your code and data.
Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:As with any modelling study, the various assumptions and simplifications can contribute to a number of limitations. With no reneging or balking or priority-based service order, the vaccination pathway actually represents a straightforward queueing network. Given also the evidence that arrivals are random (Poisson distributed) …
SciScore for 10.1101/2021.03.24.21253517: (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 not detected. Table 2: Resources
No key resources detected.
Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your code and data.
Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:As with any modelling study, the various assumptions and simplifications can contribute to a number of limitations. With no reneging or balking or priority-based service order, the vaccination pathway actually represents a straightforward queueing network. Given also the evidence that arrivals are random (Poisson distributed) and that activity-level service times are adequately represented by the considered 2-parameter distributions, the limitations of this study relate mainly to application as opposed to conceptual or methodological appropriateness. Specifically, the conditions surrounding data collection should be carefully considered. First, vaccinees were typically over 70, since vaccination priority in the UK was based primarily upon decreasing age [10]. Second, vaccinations took place over winter, when additional clothing was being worn. Third, data was collected within four to six weeks of each site opening, when staff would not yet be fully familiarised to their new roles. Therefore, in the months following this study it would reasonably be expected that service times would reduce, which, in turn, would allow greater throughput than that deduced here. However, it is important to note that these three factors are not wholly explanative of service time variation, given the substantial differences in Combined duration between Vaccination Centres A and B (Section 3.3). This would therefore suggest caution in seeking to extend the specific results of this study to other si...
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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- No protocol registration statement was detected.
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