Impact of COVID-19 on Public Research Recruitment
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Abstract
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic created a major challenge for clinical trials recruitment as early attention was focused on matters of public health and clinical care, and research--outside of COVID-19-- essentially shut down. Rally with Partners ( rally.partners.org ), an Internet-based portal for clinical research volunteer recruitment, continued to support studies that continued their recruitment during this period and additionally, implemented several measures to support COVID-19 research. In this paper, we summarize our experiences and preliminary results.
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SciScore for 10.1101/2020.07.21.20158956: (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
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources The Rally web site is implemented using the programming language Java and application frameworks that support the creation of responsive (mobile-friendly) web applications, with a Microsoft SQLServer database as the repository for research study postings. Microsoft SQLServersuggested: NoneDescriptive statistics was used to summarize the data using the IBM SPSS Statistical Software Version 24. SPSSsuggested: (SPSS, RRID:SCR_002865)Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. …
SciScore for 10.1101/2020.07.21.20158956: (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
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources The Rally web site is implemented using the programming language Java and application frameworks that support the creation of responsive (mobile-friendly) web applications, with a Microsoft SQLServer database as the repository for research study postings. Microsoft SQLServersuggested: NoneDescriptive statistics was used to summarize the data using the IBM SPSS Statistical Software Version 24. SPSSsuggested: (SPSS, RRID:SCR_002865)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: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.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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