Coronavirus Disease Case Definitions, Diagnostic Testing Criteria, and Surveillance in 25 Countries with Highest Reported Case Counts

  1. Amitabh B. Suthar
  2. Sara Schubert
  3. Julie Garon
  4. Alexia Couture
  5. Amy M. Brown
  6. Sana Charania

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  1. Version published to 10.3201/eid2801.211082
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    Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.

    Table 1: Rigor

    Ethicsnot detected.
    Sex as a biological variablenot detected.
    Randomizationnot detected.
    Blindingnot detected.
    Power Analysisnot 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:
    Despite the limitations of NAAT alternatives, they are increasingly available in many areas and have important benefits, such as lower overall cost, simplified logistics and supply chain management, and faster turnaround of results for rapid versions that may explain their integration in some national confirmed case definitions. WHO’s public health surveillance guidance also includes recommendations for laboratory testing of all suspect and probable cases but acknowledges that testing priorities would be dependent on intensity of transmission, the number of cases, and laboratory capacity. Therefore, guidance was also developed on testing asymptomatic and mildly symptomatic individuals.6,26 National differences in testing eligibility criteria may also reflect resource limitations and differences in national health insurance coverage of tests.12 A number of testing strategies proposed to target segments of the population believed to be at greatest risk of exposure to SARS-CoV-2. For example, some have proposed testing all symptomatic individuals and asymptomatic individuals with known or suspected contact with COVID-19 case for optimal NAAT testing.9,26 Testing asymptomatic individuals without an exposure was suggested if results would impact isolation, quarantine, personal protective equipment usage decisions, surgery eligibility, or inform administration of immunosuppressive therapy.29 In Australia, the national testing policy emphasized defining and targeting high-risk setti...

    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.

    Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.

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  3. Version published to 10.1101/2021.05.11.21257047v1 on medRxiv