Impact of the early stage of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on surgical volume in Japan
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SciScore for 10.1101/2020.11.18.20233882: (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:Our study has several limitations. First, our target hospitals were 254 QIP participant that voluntarily provided DPC data. This study population may not have been comprehensive enough to be representative of the current …
SciScore for 10.1101/2020.11.18.20233882: (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:Our study has several limitations. First, our target hospitals were 254 QIP participant that voluntarily provided DPC data. This study population may not have been comprehensive enough to be representative of the current situation in Japan because there are more than 8000 hospitals in Japan. In this study, participant hospitals had a variety of backgrounds and corona-positive patients were admitted in at least about half of the hospitals. We believe that selection bias was not very significant, and this result was important for understanding the future course of the pandemic. Second, we did not consider whether there was a trend for surgery originally performed in an inpatient setting for ambulatory surgery because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended that some inpatient surgeries should be shifted to ambulatory surgery when possible and it is safe to do so, and the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association also cited the recommendation because of the risk of infection for medical staff and patients and the efficiency of medical resources.34 Ambulatory surgery centres need to be prepared for the possibility of performing surgeries such as trauma and backlog surgeries that have never been experienced before depending on how the COVID-19 pandemic develops in the future. Finally, the ITS analysis was performed with DPC data based on the discharge date. The state of emergency declared by the government and surgical triage by each ho...
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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