Reviewer's report
Title:Helicobacter pylori infection: Approach of primary care physicians in a
developing country
Version: 4Date:19 March 2009
Reviewer: Andrew S Day
Reviewer's report:
The revised manuscript by Ahmed and colleagues focuses on the understanding
of Pakistani general practitioners about Helicobacter pylori infection.
Overall comment:
This manuscript is important as it provides a mechanism to promote optimal care
and management of individuals with H. pylori in Pakistan and other countries.
This information should assist educators and administrators to consider more
appropriate opportunities for practitioners to learn. It should also encourage
individual practitioners towards self-directed learning.
Specific Comments:
The authors have further improved their manuscript.
The authors have attended to the reviewers comments in almost all instances.
Many of the typographical errors have been corrected: others remain. Most of the
time H. pylori is mentioned it is italicised as required.
The authors should consider adding Figure Legends to the Figure Titles.
It would be of great interest to learn if practitioners in this area of Pakistan who
do not attend CME activities know less or the same about this important area.
Furthermore, it would be most interesting to do a parallel study in rural
practitioners in Pakistan and/or to compare and contrast with another country in a
parallel fashion. The authors may wish to consider such endeavours to follow the
current study.
Level of interest: An article whose findings are important to those with closely
related research interests
Quality of written English: Needs some language corrections before being
published
Statistical review: Yes, but I do not feel adequately qualified to assess the
statistics.
Declaration of competing interests:
'I declare that I have no competing interests'
Reviewer's report
Title:Helicobacter pylori infection: Approach of primary care physicians in a
developing country
Version: 4Date:19 March 2009
Reviewer: Andrew S Day
Reviewer's report:
The revised manuscript by Ahmed and colleagues focuses on the understanding
of Pakistani general practitioners about Helicobacter pylori infection.
Overall comment:
This manuscript is important as it provides a mechanism to promote optimal care
and management of individuals with H. pylori in Pakistan and other countries.
This information should assist educators and administrators to consider more
appropriate opportunities for practitioners to learn. It should also encourage
individual practitioners towards self-directed learning.
Specific Comments:
The authors have further improved their manuscript.
The authors have attended to the reviewers comments in almost all instances.
Many of the typographical errors have been corrected: others remain. Most of the
time H. pylori is mentioned it is italicised as required.
The authors should consider adding Figure Legends to the Figure Titles.
It would be of great interest to learn if practitioners in this area of Pakistan who
do not attend CME activities know less or the same about this important area.
Furthermore, it would be most interesting to do a parallel study in rural
practitioners in Pakistan and/or to compare and contrast with another country in a
parallel fashion. The authors may wish to consider such endeavours to follow the
current study.
Level of interest: An article whose findings are important to those with closely
related research interests
Quality of written English: Needs some language corrections before being
published
Statistical review: Yes, but I do not feel adequately qualified to assess the
statistics.
Declaration of competing interests:
'I declare that I have no competing interests'
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Reviewer's report
Title:Helicobacter pylori infection: Approach of primary care physicians in a
developing country
Version: 4Date:19 March 2009
Reviewer: Andrew S Day
Reviewer's report:
The revised manuscript by Ahmed and colleagues focuses on the understanding
of Pakistani general practitioners about Helicobacter pylori infection.
Overall comment:
This manuscript is important as it provides a mechanism to promote optimal care
and management of individuals with H. pylori in Pakistan and other countries.
This information should assist educators and administrators to consider more
appropriate opportunities for practitioners to learn. It should also encourage
individual practitioners towards self-directed learning.
Specific Comments:
The authors have further improved their manuscript.
The authors have attended to the reviewers comments in almost all instances.
Many of the typographical errors have been corrected: others remain. Most of the
time H. pylori is mentioned it is italicised as required.
The authors should consider adding Figure Legends to the Figure Titles.
It would be of great interest to learn if practitioners in this area of Pakistan who
do not attend CME activities know less or the same about this important area.
Furthermore, it would be most interesting to do a parallel study in rural
practitioners in Pakistan and/or to compare and contrast with another country in a
parallel fashion. The authors may wish to consider such endeavours to follow the
current study.
Level of interest: An article whose findings are important to those with closely
related research interests
Quality of written English: Needs some language corrections before being
published
Statistical review: Yes, but I do not feel adequately qualified to assess the
statistics.
Declaration of competing interests:
'I declare that I have no competing interests'
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