Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, Essex, United Kingdom
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Characterising COVID-19 as a Viral Clotting Fever: A Mixed Methods Scoping Review
Author(s): Justin Marley* and Nisha Marley
The COVID-19 pandemic has claimed over 1 million lives globally and results from the SARS-CoV-2 virus. COVID-19 is associated with a coagulopathy. In this mixed-methods PRISMA-compliant scoping review, we set out to determine if ARDS, sepsis and DIC could account for the coagulopathy and if there were any other features of the coagulopathy we could determine so as to inform future research. Methods: We used a search strategy to identify papers with clinically relevant thromboembolic events in COVID-19. We then developed a technique referred to as an Abridged Thematic Analysis (ATA) to quickly identify themes in the papers so as to increase the yield of clinically relevant information. We further developed Validated Abridged Thematic Analysis (VATA) to validate the resulting taxonomy of themes. Finally we developed a number of methods that can be used by other researchers to take forwa.. Read More»
DOI:
10.37421/ 2165-7831.2023.13.300
Journal of Blood & Lymph received 443 citations as per Google Scholar report