Mortality Attributed to COVID-19 in High-Altitude Populations
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Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement IRB: This study did not require approval or exemption from the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Institutional Review Board as it involved the analysis of publicly available de-identified data only. Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable Since old age and male sex are risk factors linked to COVID-19 mortality (Li et al., 2020; Vincent and Taccone, 2020), we tested for a possible interaction between age and altitude and sex and altitude on the regression models for mortality, pneumonia, and endotracheal intubation. Table 2: Resources
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources All analyses were performed using … SciScore for 10.1101/2020.06.10.20128025: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement IRB: This study did not require approval or exemption from the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Institutional Review Board as it involved the analysis of publicly available de-identified data only. Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable Since old age and male sex are risk factors linked to COVID-19 mortality (Li et al., 2020; Vincent and Taccone, 2020), we tested for a possible interaction between age and altitude and sex and altitude on the regression models for mortality, pneumonia, and endotracheal intubation. Table 2: Resources
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources All analyses were performed using Stata 14 (StataCorp LP, TX). 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:A major limitation of the present study include possible misreport of COVID-19 cases and deaths. Underreporting of COVID-19 is a global problem (Krantz and Rao, 2020) as the number of cases largely depend on the number of tests performed and the type of test used. This can introduce bias when comparing incidence rates across populations and overestimate or underestimate the total number of deaths attributed to COVID-19. Likewise, it is possible that the number of reported deaths attributed to COVID-19 does not accurately represent the total of fatal cases. Deaths occurring in nursing homes or private residences could be underreported.
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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