Healthcare-associated COVID-19 in England: A national data linkage study
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SciScore for 10.1101/2021.02.16.21251625: (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:Strengths and limitations: The strength of our study is that centralised, routinely collected national data sources were used which recorded all positive COVID-19 test results from Pillars 1 and 2 of the UK government’s public …
SciScore for 10.1101/2021.02.16.21251625: (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:Strengths and limitations: The strength of our study is that centralised, routinely collected national data sources were used which recorded all positive COVID-19 test results from Pillars 1 and 2 of the UK government’s public testing programmes, and all NHS hospital attendances and admissions in England. The latter represented approximately 98% of all hospital activity in the country.30 Pillar 1 tests were provided by NHS and PHE laboratories for community cases from January 16th to March 12th, 2020, for hospitalised cases and the investigation of care home outbreaks from March 12th to March 31st, 2020, and for healthcare workers and their families from April 1st onwards (where additional capacity was available). Pillar 2 testing was delivered by central government through academic, public and private partnerships: from April 1st 2020 it was progressively rolled out to key workers in the NHS, social care and other critical sectors; from May 23rd the general population could also access testing from this route; from August 1st it was used to test asymptomatic staff and residents in care homes and for asymptomatic contacts in outbreak investigations. We saw a large expected decrease in the proportion of cases with a temporal link to a hospital record (from 79% in March to 7% in August), as testing policy across the UK expanded from an initial focus on testing in hospitals to community testing. The main limitation of our study is that our case numbers reflect national testing a...
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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