The need of health policy perspective to protect Healthcare Workers during COVID-19 pandemic. A GRADE rapid review on the N95 respirators effectiveness

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  1. SciScore for 10.1101/2020.04.06.20054841: (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

    Software and Algorithms
    SentencesResources
    Risk of bias assessment: Two reviewers independently assessed the risk of bias (RoB) of the selected RCTs using the Cochrane Risk of Bias tool.
    Cochrane Risk of Bias
    suggested: None
    For cluster RCTs, we applied the specific method described in the Cochrane Handbook [25] to account for clustering and obtain adjusted RR and CIs.
    Cochrane Handbook
    suggested: None
    Quality of the evidence-GRADE approach: We evaluated the overall quality of the evidence for critical and important outcomes using the GRADE approach[27].
    GRADE
    suggested: None

    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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