Cancer inpatients with COVID-19: A report from the Brazilian National Cancer Institute
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SciScore for 10.1101/2020.06.27.20141499: (What is this?)
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Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement Consent: Written informed consent was waived due to the retrospective design and the emergency feature of the research. 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 Statistical analysis: The statistical software package SPSS, version 21.0 (São Paulo, Brazil) was used for the analyses. 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 …SciScore for 10.1101/2020.06.27.20141499: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement Consent: Written informed consent was waived due to the retrospective design and the emergency feature of the research. 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 Statistical analysis: The statistical software package SPSS, version 21.0 (São Paulo, Brazil) was used for the analyses. 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:Some important limitations are also worth mentioning in this study. As a single-center cohort in a country of continental proportions, such as Brazil, a selection bias may well exist, hindering an external validity. The missing data rate for some variables was considerably high due to the retrospective design of the study. There was no paired sample with non-cancer patients with COVID-19 or cancer patients without COVID-19 to provide a better comparison between the outcomes of morbidity and mortality. Due to the in-hospital follow-up only, there was no report of long-term morbidity. Finally, the general population of the study was very heterogeneous with several types of neoplasia and anti-cancer treatment, making it difficult to design a more reliable portrait by tumor site. Lastly, finishing on a positive note, some strengths of the current study can also be recognized. The Brazilian National Cancer Institute is the most important national reference center for the treatment of cancer patients through the Brazilian Public Health System (SUS), with a high admission charge, enabling a quick inclusion of patients for this study. This was one of the largest series ever undertaken to explore the impacts of SARS-CoV-2 infection specifically in cancer patients. Throughout the analysis, many variables were presented, allowing us to explore the possibility of their association with risk of death. Ultimately, this is the first set of Brazilian data in this field, ever. Conclusively, l...
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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