Is sleep apnea a risk factor for Covid-19? findings from a retrospective cohort study
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SciScore for 10.1101/2020.05.14.20098319: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement IRB: Ethics statement: According to the Finnish Medical Research Act (488/1999, sections 1-3), non-interventional studies do not require separate approval of the ethics committee.
Consent: Approval for this study was obtained from the Turku University Hospital Clinical Research Centre, who did not require ethics committee approval or informed consent.Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable not detected. Table 2: Resources
No key resources detected.
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 …
SciScore for 10.1101/2020.05.14.20098319: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement IRB: Ethics statement: According to the Finnish Medical Research Act (488/1999, sections 1-3), non-interventional studies do not require separate approval of the ethics committee.
Consent: Approval for this study was obtained from the Turku University Hospital Clinical Research Centre, who did not require ethics committee approval or informed consent.Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable not detected. Table 2: Resources
No key resources detected.
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:Our study has some major limitations. First, the size of the study remains small due to low incidence of Covid-19 in Southwest Finland in the early phase of the pandemic. Second, due to the retrospective nature of this study, there was incomplete documentation on some of the variables. Third, follow-up was very short, which may lead to under reporting of mortality and complications, although the number still in hospital on the date of data cut-off was very low. Fourth, we only report on patients admitted in the hospital, which leads to an obvious bias, mild cases are largely missed, and fragile patients with severe disease may not be transported to the hospital but receive instead palliative care at home.
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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