Reviewer's report
Title:Epidemiology of Appendicitis and Appendectomy for the Low-Income
Population in Taiwan, 2003-2011
Version:3Date:16 November 2014
Reviewer: Minutolo Vincenzo
Reviewer's report:
Major Compulsory Revisions
Clarify the difference between appendicitis and acute appendicitis. Some data
refer to appendicitis and some other data refer to acute appendicitis. Surgery for
chronic appendicitis is very rare and the numbers given are way too high and
therefore an explanation is needed.
The authors state that during the 2003-2011 periods, 2,916 patients from the LIP
and 209,206 patients from the NP were diagnosed with appendicitis.... These 2
cohorts are very discrepant in size. Please justify with statistical means that the
results you are having are statistical significant despite the different size of the
cohorts studied.
Minor Essential Revisions
Please add the p value in the body of the text.
Line 248... 2 cohorts of LIP? Most likely a typo, please clarify.
Correct figure 5: change in Perforation rather than perforatation
Level of interest: An article of importance in its field
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:Epidemiology of Appendicitis and Appendectomy for the Low-Income
Population in Taiwan, 2003-2011
Version:3Date:16 November 2014
Reviewer: Minutolo Vincenzo
Reviewer's report:
Major Compulsory Revisions
Clarify the difference between appendicitis and acute appendicitis. Some data
refer to appendicitis and some other data refer to acute appendicitis. Surgery for
chronic appendicitis is very rare and the numbers given are way too high and
therefore an explanation is needed.
The authors state that during the 2003-2011 periods, 2,916 patients from the LIP
and 209,206 patients from the NP were diagnosed with appendicitis.... These 2
cohorts are very discrepant in size. Please justify with statistical means that the
results you are having are statistical significant despite the different size of the
cohorts studied.
Minor Essential Revisions
Please add the p value in the body of the text.
Line 248... 2 cohorts of LIP? Most likely a typo, please clarify.
Correct figure 5: change in Perforation rather than perforatation
Level of interest: An article of importance in its field
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
Please review this paper.
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Reviewer's report
Title:Epidemiology of Appendicitis and Appendectomy for the Low-Income
Population in Taiwan, 2003-2011
Version:3Date:16 November 2014
Reviewer: Minutolo Vincenzo
Reviewer's report:
Major Compulsory Revisions
Clarify the difference between appendicitis and acute appendicitis. Some data
refer to appendicitis and some other data refer to acute appendicitis. Surgery for
chronic appendicitis is very rare and the numbers given are way too high and
therefore an explanation is needed.
The authors state that during the 2003-2011 periods, 2,916 patients from the LIP
and 209,206 patients from the NP were diagnosed with appendicitis.... These 2
cohorts are very discrepant in size. Please justify with statistical means that the
results you are having are statistical significant despite the different size of the
cohorts studied.
Minor Essential Revisions
Please add the p value in the body of the text.
Line 248... 2 cohorts of LIP? Most likely a typo, please clarify.
Correct figure 5: change in Perforation rather than perforatation
Level of interest: An article of importance in its field
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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