Efficacy of corticosteroids in non-intensive care unit patients with COVID-19 pneumonia from the New York Metropolitan region

  1. Monil Majmundar
  2. Tikal Kansara
  3. Joanna Marta Lenik
  4. Hansang Park
  5. Kuldeep Ghosh
  6. Rajkumar Doshi
  7. Palak Shah
  8. Ashish Kumar
  9. Hossam Amin
  10. Shobhana Chaudhari
  11. Imnett Habtes

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  1. Version published to 10.1371/journal.pone.0238827
  2. Version published to 10.1101/2020.07.02.20145565v2 on medRxiv
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    Table 1: Rigor

    Institutional Review Board StatementIRB: The ethics committee of New York City Health and Hospital (STAR) and BRANY institution review board approved this study and permitted a waiver of informed consent from the study participant.
    Consent: The ethics committee of New York City Health and Hospital (STAR) and BRANY institution review board approved this study and permitted a waiver of informed consent from the study participant.
    Randomizationnot detected.
    Blindingnot detected.
    Power Analysisnot detected.
    Sex as a biological variablenot detected.

    Table 2: Resources

    Software and Algorithms
    SentencesResources
    The ethics committee of New York City Health and Hospital (STAR) and BRANY institution review board approved this study and permitted a waiver of informed consent from the study participant.
    STAR
    suggested: (STAR, RRID:SCR_015899)
    All analyses were performed with STATA software, version 16.0 (StataCorp LLC).
    STATA
    suggested: (Stata, RRID:SCR_012763)
    StataCorp
    suggested: (Stata, RRID:SCR_012763)

    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
    NCT04381936RecruitingRandomised Evaluation of COVID-19 Therapy
    NCT04273321CompletedEfficacy and Safety of Corticosteroids in COVID-19

    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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  4. Version published to 10.1101/2020.07.02.20145565v1 on medRxiv