{"id":2056,"date":"2020-11-06T11:18:48","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T19:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2056"},"modified":"2020-11-09T11:19:50","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T19:19:50","slug":"scientific-quality-of-covid-19-and-sars-cov-2-publications-in-the-highest-impact-medical-journals-during-the-early-phase-of-the-pandemic-a-case-control-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/06\/scientific-quality-of-covid-19-and-sars-cov-2-publications-in-the-highest-impact-medical-journals-during-the-early-phase-of-the-pandemic-a-case-control-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientific Quality of COVID-19 and SARS CoV-2 Publications in the Highest Impact Medical Journals during the Early Phase of the Pandemic: A Case Control Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The scientific quality of COVID-19 publications in the three highest ranked scientific medical journals (NEJM, JAMA, and The Lancet) was below the quality average of these journals for non-COVID-19 research. Among 155 COVID-19 studies and 130 non-COVID-19 studies included in the analysis, the non-COVID-19 publications had higher levels of evidence as defined by the level of evidence pyramid. The COVID-19 publications had an 18-times higher odds of be of lower evidence quality. The quantitative quality score was significantly higher for non-COVID-19 studies (mean difference 11.1). <em>[EDITORIAL NOTE: In the interest of highlighting examples of a lower quality of COVID-9 related publications, it should be noted that the analysis described in this article uses a cohort study design rather than a case-control design, as indicated by the authors.]<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Zdravkovic et al. (Nov 5, 2020). Scientific Quality of COVID-19 and SARS CoV-2 Publications in the Highest Impact Medical Journals during the Early Phase of the Pandemic: A Case Control Study. PLOS ONE. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0241826\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0241826<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scientific quality of COVID-19 publications in the three highest ranked scientific medical journals (NEJM, JAMA, and The Lancet) was below the quality average of these journals for non-COVID-19 research. Among 155 COVID-19 studies and 130 non-COVID-19 studies included in the analysis, the non-COVID-19 publications had higher levels of evidence as defined by the level&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/06\/scientific-quality-of-covid-19-and-sars-cov-2-publications-in-the-highest-impact-medical-journals-during-the-early-phase-of-the-pandemic-a-case-control-study\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[29],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-2056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-public-health","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2057,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056\/revisions\/2057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2056"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}