The impact of remote home monitoring of people with COVID-19 using pulse oximetry: A national population and observational study
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SciScore for 10.1101/2021.12.10.21267613: (What is this?)
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Table 1: Rigor
Ethics IRB: Since we were using combinations of aggregated data and datasets for which we already had approval to use, no ethics committee approval was needed for this analysis. Sex as a biological variable not detected. Randomization Using rounded data: To accommodate the uncertainty caused by the rounding of the onboarding data, we ran all our statistical models multiple times, each time randomly sampling onboarded numbers from the range of feasible values (treating the distributions as uniform). Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Table 2: Resources
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources All statistical analyses were performed using SAS version 9.4.19 Patient and Public Involvement: … SciScore for 10.1101/2021.12.10.21267613: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Ethics IRB: Since we were using combinations of aggregated data and datasets for which we already had approval to use, no ethics committee approval was needed for this analysis. Sex as a biological variable not detected. Randomization Using rounded data: To accommodate the uncertainty caused by the rounding of the onboarding data, we ran all our statistical models multiple times, each time randomly sampling onboarded numbers from the range of feasible values (treating the distributions as uniform). Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Table 2: Resources
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources All statistical analyses were performed using SAS version 9.4.19 Patient and Public Involvement: Members of the study team met to discuss the study with service users and public members of the NIHR BRACE Health and Care Panel and patient representatives from NIHR RSET. SASsuggested: (SASqPCR, RRID:SCR_003056)Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your data.
Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:Firstly, limitations in data completeness meant that we were only able to analyse onboarding data for one quarter of CCGs across England. This, combined with lower than expected coverage within these CCGs, meant that our ability to detect any possible impact was smaller than anticipated. This also meant that some areas of the country were under-represented. Secondly, individual level associations may not have been seen at the aggregate level. Thirdly, qualitative findings from our wider study revealed that COVID oximetry @home was implemented in a variety of ways by different services within CCGs, some of which may have had more impact on outcomes than others.6 The possible impact of the intervention on hospital admissions was always uncertain, since the aim of the programme was to ensure people who needed hospital treatment were admitted at the right time. Also, once in hospital, the determinants of length of stay are complex and multifactorial, and may have varied during the time course of the second wave of COVID-19 infection in England. Strengths and limitations: The anticipated value of our approach with aggregated data was that it would complement the other two simultaneous quantitative evaluations of CO@h,10,11 could be carried out more rapidly and, if COVID-19 continues to stretch national health services, it could be more readily repeated as new data become available, provided the right information is routinely collected at source. We were able to handle small number...
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