Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infections in Young Children Presenting to Primary Care in Catalonia During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Abstract
We observed an unusual pattern of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in children under 5 years in Catalonia (Spain). We observed a near absence of RSV during winter months and a subsequent surge during the late spring. Primary care electronic health records combined with hospital RSV laboratory confirmation could be used to monitor trends of respiratory pathogens.
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SciScore for 10.1101/2021.01.27.21250063: (What is this?)
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Table 1: Rigor
NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.Table 2: Resources
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Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:Among the limitations of our study, we should address the use of clinical diagnoses from primary care EHR for surveillance, as some studies suggested that clinical codes could underestimate the number of real RSV infections [9]. However, we also found our results consistent with the virus laboratory-confirmations for RSV data from one of the biggest paediatric hospitals in Spain. Monitoring clinical diagnoses in primary care settings …
SciScore for 10.1101/2021.01.27.21250063: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.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:Among the limitations of our study, we should address the use of clinical diagnoses from primary care EHR for surveillance, as some studies suggested that clinical codes could underestimate the number of real RSV infections [9]. However, we also found our results consistent with the virus laboratory-confirmations for RSV data from one of the biggest paediatric hospitals in Spain. Monitoring clinical diagnoses in primary care settings could anticipate trend changes of viral respiratory infections, since this surveillance system has been useful before to find unusual patterns related to COVID-19 in flu diagnoses with success [10]. As of January 2020, the surveillance system in Australia (NWS) is reporting an increase of weekly RSV case number during the Southern hemisphere spring [20], a period when the circulation of this virus is not expected. We have to learn from experience in other countries, looking forward to the sudden circulation of this virus in the next months. Monitoring RSV and related diseases in primary care and hospital settings is a low-cost surveillance system, that covers all the territory and all severity degrees, that could help to prompt public health data-driven decision-making becoming a warning system of unexpected trends.
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.
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