Decreasing median age of COVID-19 cases in the United States—Changing epidemiology or changing surveillance?
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SciScore for 10.1101/2020.07.22.20160119: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement not detected. Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable not detected. Table 2: Resources
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources To explore differential changes in testing for severely ill patients vs. patients with milder disease, we also stratified tests ordered within the University of Utah Healthcare system by inpatient vs. outpatient facilities. Utah Healthcaresuggested: NoneResults 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 …SciScore for 10.1101/2020.07.22.20160119: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement not detected. Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable not detected. Table 2: Resources
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources To explore differential changes in testing for severely ill patients vs. patients with milder disease, we also stratified tests ordered within the University of Utah Healthcare system by inpatient vs. outpatient facilities. Utah Healthcaresuggested: NoneResults 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:A key limitation this study is that, although ARUP is a national reference laboratory, a plurality of specimens (and the only specimens with data on inpatient vs. outpatient providers) were available from Utah. Although the aggregated non-Utah specimens show similar age-related trends to the Utah specimens, results from this study may not generalize to any specific non-Utah state. Understanding how SARS-CoV-2 infection varies across the age spectrum is key for developing responses to the COVID-19 epidemic. Our findings suggest that age-related differences in infection from the early epidemic until now are driven by changes in testing patterns rather than true changes in the epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 infection. This calls for caution in interpretation of routine surveillance data until testing patterns are stabilized with regard to illness acuity.
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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