Reviewer's report
Title:Hospital-acquired invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in patients with hepatic
failure
Version: 3Date:10 March 2008
Reviewer: Freedom Nkhululeko N Gumedze
Reviewer's report:
- Minor Essential Revisions
1. Page 3: Methods and materials: Correct spelling for brief.
2. Page 6: Results: It is unclear whether the figures in brackets
(22-51) represents a range or confidence interval.
3. Page 7: Results: Be consistent report the range as from 4 to 11 and
not 1~16.
4. Page 11: Table 1: Include standard deviations for the means of Age
and MELD scoring.
5. The notation “Mean ± SEM” is used thoughout the manuscript and
should be changed. The interval resulting from the expression represents
a 68% confidence interval for the true mean if the variable under
consideration is Normally distributed, but is not of any particular
interest, even when the Normality assumption is justified. The
convention “Mean (SD)” or “Mean (SEM)” is preferable.
What next?: Accept after minor essential revisions
Level of interest: An article whose findings are important to those with closely
related research interests
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: Yes, and I have assessed the statistics in my report.
Declaration of competing interests:
I declare that I have no competing interests.
Reviewer's report
Title:Hospital-acquired invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in patients with hepatic
failure
Version: 3Date:10 March 2008
Reviewer: Freedom Nkhululeko N Gumedze
Reviewer's report:
- Minor Essential Revisions
1. Page 3: Methods and materials: Correct spelling for brief.
2. Page 6: Results: It is unclear whether the figures in brackets
(22-51) represents a range or confidence interval.
3. Page 7: Results: Be consistent report the range as from 4 to 11 and
not 1~16.
4. Page 11: Table 1: Include standard deviations for the means of Age
and MELD scoring.
5. The notation “Mean ± SEM” is used thoughout the manuscript and
should be changed. The interval resulting from the expression represents
a 68% confidence interval for the true mean if the variable under
consideration is Normally distributed, but is not of any particular
interest, even when the Normality assumption is justified. The
convention “Mean (SD)” or “Mean (SEM)” is preferable.
What next?: Accept after minor essential revisions
Level of interest: An article whose findings are important to those with closely
related research interests
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: Yes, and I have assessed the statistics in my report.
Declaration of competing interests:
I declare that I have no competing interests.
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Reviewer's report
Title:Hospital-acquired invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in patients with hepatic
failure
Version: 3Date:10 March 2008
Reviewer: Freedom Nkhululeko N Gumedze
Reviewer's report:
- Minor Essential Revisions
1. Page 3: Methods and materials: Correct spelling for brief.
2. Page 6: Results: It is unclear whether the figures in brackets
(22-51) represents a range or confidence interval.
3. Page 7: Results: Be consistent report the range as from 4 to 11 and
not 1~16.
4. Page 11: Table 1: Include standard deviations for the means of Age
and MELD scoring.
5. The notation “Mean ± SEM” is used thoughout the manuscript and
should be changed. The interval resulting from the expression represents
a 68% confidence interval for the true mean if the variable under
consideration is Normally distributed, but is not of any particular
interest, even when the Normality assumption is justified. The
convention “Mean (SD)” or “Mean (SEM)” is preferable.
What next?: Accept after minor essential revisions
Level of interest: An article whose findings are important to those with closely
related research interests
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: Yes, and I have assessed the statistics in my report.
Declaration of competing interests:
I declare that I have no competing interests.
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