Clinical, radiological and therapeutic characteristics of patients with COVID-19 in Saudi Arabia
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Institutional Review Board Statement IRB: We further classified the severity of the disease based on the following criteria; 1) mild disease was defined as patients with upper respiratory tract symptoms (as rhinorrhoea, sore throat, headache, myalgia, body pain, low grad fever and or dry cough) with absent of clinical or radiological finding of pneumonia; 2) moderate disease defined as symptomatic patients with radiological sign of pneumonia; 3) severe disease defined as confirmed COVID-19 pneumonia with any of the following respiratory rate ≥30/min, blood oxygen saturation ≤93% at rest, PaO2/FiO2 ratio <300, lung infiltration >50% of the lung field, and 4) critically sever disease defined as any … SciScore for 10.1101/2020.05.07.20094169: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement IRB: We further classified the severity of the disease based on the following criteria; 1) mild disease was defined as patients with upper respiratory tract symptoms (as rhinorrhoea, sore throat, headache, myalgia, body pain, low grad fever and or dry cough) with absent of clinical or radiological finding of pneumonia; 2) moderate disease defined as symptomatic patients with radiological sign of pneumonia; 3) severe disease defined as confirmed COVID-19 pneumonia with any of the following respiratory rate ≥30/min, blood oxygen saturation ≤93% at rest, PaO2/FiO2 ratio <300, lung infiltration >50% of the lung field, and 4) critically sever disease defined as any of the following: respiratory failure required invasive mechanical ventilation, shock or organ failure require admission to the intensive care unit. 2.4. Ethics: This study was approved by the institutional ethics board at the Ministry of Health in Saudi Arabia (No. H-02-K-076-0420-286). Randomization not detected. Blinding The radiological examinations were interpreted by a certified consultant radiologist who was blinded from the clinical presentation of the patients. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable not detected. Table 2: Resources
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) version 25.0 software (SPSS Inc) was used to perform all statistical analysis. Statistical Package for the Social Sciencessuggested: (SPSS, RRID:SCR_002865)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: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:This study has some limitations. First, the number of patients included in the study were small. Second, the study population only included patients from a single-centre hospital in Saudi Arabia.
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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