Results of the CAPSID randomized trial for high-dose convalescent plasma in patients with severe COVID-19

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  1. SciScore for 10.1101/2021.05.10.21256192: (What is this?)

    Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.

    Table 1: Rigor

    EthicsIRB: The trial was approved by the Federal Authority Paul-Ehrlich-Institute and by the Ethical Committee of the University of Ulm and the ethical committees of the participating hospitals.
    Consent: Written informed consent was obtained from all study participants or their legal representatives.
    Sex as a biological variablenot detected.
    RandomizationDesign: This is a multicenter, open-label randomized clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy and safety of CCP added to standard therapy (CCP group) vs. standard therapy alone (control group) in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 (Figure 1).
    Blindingnot detected.
    Power Analysisnot detected.

    Table 2: Resources

    Software and Algorithms
    SentencesResources
    All statistical analyses were performed according to the statistical analysis plan using SAS® (version 9.4M6 or newer, www.sas.com).
    SAS®
    suggested: (SASqPCR, RRID:SCR_003056)

    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: We found the following clinical trial numbers in your paper:

    IdentifierStatusTitle
    NCT04433910CompletedA Clinical Trial of Convalescent Plasma Compared to Best Sup…


    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.

    Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.


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