Anterior nasal versus nasal mid-turbinate sampling for a SARS-CoV-2 antigen-detecting rapid test: does localisation or professional collection matter?
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SciScore for 10.1101/2021.02.09.21251274: (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: 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:A limitation of the study is that it was performed in a single centre. Patients who performed self-sampling were rather young and educated, half of whom already had experienced professional sample collection for SARS-CoV-2. The …
SciScore for 10.1101/2021.02.09.21251274: (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: 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:A limitation of the study is that it was performed in a single centre. Patients who performed self-sampling were rather young and educated, half of whom already had experienced professional sample collection for SARS-CoV-2. The clinical usefulness of nasal swabs has been demonstrated and acknowledged for SARS-CoV-2 RT-NPCR, including self-sampling [8-10], and evidence for Ag-RDTs is growing [4-6, 11, 12]. With written and illustrated instructions, patients were able to easily perform NMT-sampling. Procedural sampling-deviations might be reduced by video instructions. Nasal self-sampling will allow scaling of antigen testing. Considering the diagnostic equivalence, the more convenient self AN-sampling should allow an even broader use.
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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