Impact of COVID-19 on clinical practice, income, health and lifestyle behavior of Brazilian urologists
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SciScore for 10.1101/2020.06.05.20121566: (What is this?)
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Institutional Review Board Statement IRB: This study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine (project number CAPPESQ 13051/2020) and informed consent was obtained from all participants.
Consent: This study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine (project number CAPPESQ 13051/2020) and informed consent was obtained from all participants.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 GraphPad Prism, version 8.0.4, San Diego-CA, USA, was used for data analysis GraphPa…SciScore for 10.1101/2020.06.05.20121566: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement IRB: This study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine (project number CAPPESQ 13051/2020) and informed consent was obtained from all participants.
Consent: This study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine (project number CAPPESQ 13051/2020) and informed consent was obtained from all participants.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 GraphPad Prism, version 8.0.4, San Diego-CA, USA, was used for data analysis GraphPad Prismsuggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)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:Indeed, studies have shown high levels of effectiveness and patient satisfaction with tele-interventions in many clinical scenarios.(31, 32) Telemedicine limitations, however, must be discussed constantly with the medical and lay population. We believe that tele-screening, test reviews and follow-up evaluations that do not require physical examination are the ideal situations for this type of care, especially when the patient is in the high-risk group and must be socially isolated.(33) During the pandemics, the general recommendation is to reschedule surgical procedures that can be postponed without harm to the patient, reducing the risks of contamination for the patient and the surgical team. It is not well defined which operations can be postponed and for how long. Different guidelines and recommendations have been published in order to help practitioners and authorities in prioritizing essential surgeries.(15, 17) These recommendations, however, are mostly not evidence-informed, but based on expert opinion. Most urologists in Brazil did not perform any non-essential surgeries during April/2020. Still, most performed emergency cases, as recommended by the guidelines. In addition, it was interesting to observe urologists’ estimates of time beyond which delaying surgeries would harm patients, which seem to be in fair agreement with the expert recommendations.(34) A clinical infection by the SARS-CoV-2 was reported by 13.5% of participants, including 5.2% with unequivocal labo...
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