Title: Hepatitis C treatment outcomes for Australian First Nations Peoples: equivalent SVR rate
but higher rates of loss to follow-up
Version: 2 Date: 09 May 2022
Reviewer's report:
• Several grammatical and spelling errors that should be corrected
• Abstract: Would suggest less detail in the Results section and an additional sentence or two
in Conclusions
• Table 1 Data source: MBS # section – would add further labeling like “utilization over past
[time period]”
• Table 1 – Based on count data, it’s not clear why chi-square used for mental health and fisher
exact used for GP or specialist
• Supplementary Table 3: “N/S” for a number of Adjusted OR
o Logistic regression estimates are affected by omitted variables, even when they are unrelated
to the independent variables in the model (omitted variable bias)
o Should more variables be included in the adjusted OR analysis as the cutoff (p<0.2) could be
too low given the small sample sizes? Suggest discussing as a limitation.
Title: Hepatitis C treatment outcomes for Australian First Nations Peoples: equivalent SVR rate
but higher rates of loss to follow-up
Version: 2 Date: 09 May 2022
Reviewer's report:
• Several grammatical and spelling errors that should be corrected
• Abstract: Would suggest less detail in the Results section and an additional sentence or two
in Conclusions
• Table 1 Data source: MBS # section – would add further labeling like “utilization over past
[time period]”
• Table 1 – Based on count data, it’s not clear why chi-square used for mental health and fisher
exact used for GP or specialist
• Supplementary Table 3: “N/S” for a number of Adjusted OR
o Logistic regression estimates are affected by omitted variables, even when they are unrelated
to the independent variables in the model (omitted variable bias)
o Should more variables be included in the adjusted OR analysis as the cutoff (p<0.2) could be
too low given the small sample sizes? Suggest discussing as a limitation.
Please review this paper.
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Title: Hepatitis C treatment outcomes for Australian First Nations Peoples: equivalent SVR rate
but higher rates of loss to follow-up
Version: 2 Date: 09 May 2022
Reviewer's report:
• Several grammatical and spelling errors that should be corrected
• Abstract: Would suggest less detail in the Results section and an additional sentence or two
in Conclusions
• Table 1 Data source: MBS # section – would add further labeling like “utilization over past
[time period]”
• Table 1 – Based on count data, it’s not clear why chi-square used for mental health and fisher
exact used for GP or specialist
• Supplementary Table 3: “N/S” for a number of Adjusted OR
o Logistic regression estimates are affected by omitted variables, even when they are unrelated
to the independent variables in the model (omitted variable bias)
o Should more variables be included in the adjusted OR analysis as the cutoff (p<0.2) could be
too low given the small sample sizes? Suggest discussing as a limitation.
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