Clinical, Serological, and Histopathological Similarities Between Severe COVID-19 and Acute Exacerbation of Connective Tissue Disease-Associated Interstitial Lung Disease (CTD-ILD)

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    Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.

    Table 1: Rigor

    Institutional Review Board StatementConsent: In the present study, we included all consecutive patients with positive SARS-CoV-2-RT-PCR (mucosal swab, pharyngeal or bronchoalveolar lavage) admitted to the Bundeswehrkrankenhaus Ulm in March and April 2020 after obtaining informed consent.
    IRB: This project was approved by the local ethics committee of the University of Ulm (ref. no. 129-20) and conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
    Randomizationnot detected.
    Blindingnot detected.
    Power Analysisnot detected.
    Sex as a biological variablenot detected.

    Table 2: Resources

    Antibodies
    SentencesResources
    Furthermore, immunohistochemistry for CD3, CD68, CMV and EBV was performed using prediluted antibodies on a VENTANA benchmark autostainer (Roche Tissue Diagnostics, Mannheim, Germany) following routine protocols.
    CD3
    suggested: None
    CD68
    suggested: None
    Software and Algorithms
    SentencesResources
    All statistical analyses were conducted using GraphPad PRISM 6 (GraphPad Software Inc., San Diego, CA, USA).
    GraphPad PRISM
    suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)
    GraphPad
    suggested: (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: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.

    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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