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Observational studyInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021

Using the IPcase Index with Inflection Points and the Corresponding Case Numbers to Identify the Impact Hit by COVID-19 in China: An Observation Study.

Lin-Yen Wang, Tsair-Wei Chien, Willy Chou

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Observational study in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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Lin-Yen WangDepartment of Pediatrics, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Tainan 700, Taiwan.
Tsair-Wei ChienDepartment of Medical Research, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Tainan 700, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0003-1329-0679
Willy ChouDepartment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Chi Mei Hospital Chiali, Tainan 700, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0002-1132-9341

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) occurred in Wuhan and rapidly spread around the world. Assessing the impact of COVID-19 is the first and foremost concern. The inflection point (IP) and the corresponding cumulative number of infected cases (CNICs) are the two viewpoints that should be jointly considered to differentiate the impact of struggling to fight against COVID-19 (SACOVID). The CNIC data were downloaded from the GitHub website on 23 November 2020. The item response theory model (IRT) was proposed to draw the ogive curve for every province/metropolitan city/area in China. The ipcase-index was determined by multiplying the IP days with the corresponding CNICs. The IRT model was parameterized, and the IP days were determined using the absolute advantage coefficient (AAC). The difference in SACOVID was compared using a forest plot. In the observation study, the top three regions hit severely by COVID-19 were Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Hubei, with IPcase indices of 1744, 723, and 698, respectively, and the top three areas with the most aberrant patterns were Yunnan, Sichuan, and Tianjin, with IP days of 5, 51, and 119, respectively. The difference in IP days was determined (χ2 = 5065666, df = 32,

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PandemicsChinaCitiesCOVID-19Hong KongHumansabsolute advantage coefficientchoropleth mapCOVID-19forest plotinfection pointitem response theoryKano diagramogive curve

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PMID33670825
PMCPMC7923186

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