The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Hospital Services for Patients with Cardiac Diseases: A Scoping Review

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1. Version published to 10.3390/ijerph19063172

   Mar 8, 2022
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   Version published to 10.1101/2021.12.01.21267100v2 on medRxiv

   Jan 16, 2022
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   Dec 6, 2021

   SciScore for 10.1101/2021.12.01.21267100: (What is this?)

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

   Table 1: Rigor

   Ethics	not detected.
   Sex as a biological variable	The following exclusion criteria were set: 1) non-primary studies (such as editorials and commentaries); 2) prediction models; 3) clinical case reports; and 4) diseases management or health services organization guidelines; 5) studies about the impact on healthcare workers, patients diagnosed with COVID-19, children, or pregnant women; 6) studies primarily performed in non-OECD countries; 7) articles from which only an abstract was available.
   Randomization	not detected.
   Blinding	not detected.
   Power Analysis	not detected.

   Table 2: Resources

   Software and Algorithms
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   The full search strategy for Embase and MEDLINE can be found in Supplementary …

   SciScore for 10.1101/2021.12.01.21267100: (What is this?)

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

   Table 1: Rigor

   Ethics	not detected.
   Sex as a biological variable	The following exclusion criteria were set: 1) non-primary studies (such as editorials and commentaries); 2) prediction models; 3) clinical case reports; and 4) diseases management or health services organization guidelines; 5) studies about the impact on healthcare workers, patients diagnosed with COVID-19, children, or pregnant women; 6) studies primarily performed in non-OECD countries; 7) articles from which only an abstract was available.
   Randomization	not detected.
   Blinding	not detected.
   Power Analysis	not detected.

   Table 2: Resources

   Software and Algorithms
   Sentences	Resources
   The full search strategy for Embase and MEDLINE can be found in Supplementary material S2.	Embase suggested: (EMBASE, RRID:SCR_001650) MEDLINE suggested: (MEDLINE, RRID:SCR_002185)
   Duplicates were removed using EndNote software.	EndNote suggested: (EndNote, RRID:SCR_014001)
   The data underlying this article are available in Zenodo.org, at https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5745755.	Zenodo suggested: (ZENODO, RRID:SCR_004129)

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   Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:

   However, a scoping review has its limitations. Ideally a systematic review with meta-analyses would be performed. For the articles included in this paper this would be extremely difficult, given their different methodologies, indicators, indicators’ definitions, and comparison periods. In fact, the heterogeneity in study characteristics and indicators make it hard to compare data in a reliable way. In July 2020, the International Training Network for Healthcare Performance Intelligence Professionals (HealthPros) (129) suggested that to compare, manage and improve health systems responsiveness to the pandemic, commonly agreed-upon standardized data and indicators are necessary (130). We recommend devising a uniformly accepted set of indicators with clear definitions to use in future pandemics. Another limitation is that only articles reporting on OECD countries were included in this scoping review. The global repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic on hospital services for cardiac care will therefore likely be larger than reported in this paper, given the smaller capacity to handle changes in hospital care in low-income countries. On the other hand, publication bias may have played a role in portraying a more severe impact of the pandemic. Physicians might publish sooner when effects of the pandemic are being clearly noticed in their hospital. It could also be the case that the overload with clinical tasks did not allow physicians to find the time to do scientific work, which m...

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   Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.

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   Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.

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   Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.

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   • Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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   • No protocol registration statement was detected.

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

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   Version published to 10.1101/2021.12.01.21267100v1 on medRxiv

   Dec 2, 2021