Early experience with COVID-19 patients at academic hospital in Southwestern United States

  1. Rahul Shekhar
  2. Abu Baker Sheikh
  3. Shubhra Upadhyay
  4. Jeanette Atencio
  5. Devika Kapuria

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    SciScore for 10.1101/2020.05.15.20094284: (What is this?)

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

    Table 1: Rigor

    Institutional Review Board StatementIRB: Study approval was obtained from the University of New Mexico Health Science Center Institutional Review Board and waiver of consent was given.
    Consent: Study approval was obtained from the University of New Mexico Health Science Center Institutional Review Board and waiver of consent was given.
    Randomizationnot detected.
    Blindingnot detected.
    Power Analysisnot detected.
    Sex as a biological variablenot detected.

    Table 2: Resources

    Software and Algorithms
    SentencesResources
    Data was analyzed using STATA 16.1.
    STATA
    suggested: (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:
    Our study has several notable limitations. First some cases had incomplete documentation of clinical symptoms, missing laboratory testing, or both. Second, our sample size is small and being a tertiary care teaching referral hospital, our patient population was sick to start with so mortality data may not be representative of the general population. Third, this data is representative of the early phase of SARS-cov-2 transmission in New Mexico. Several factors will change over time which might affect the outcome in future and hopefully a better one.

    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.

    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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  2. Version published to 10.1080/23744235.2020.1774645
  3. Version published to 10.1101/2020.05.15.20094284v1 on medRxiv