Reviewer's report
Title:Prevalence and predictors of patient no-shows to outpatient endoscopic
procedures scheduled with anesthesia
Version:2Date:10 June 2015
Reviewer: Lev Lichtenstein
Reviewer's report:
The reviewed work has significant merit, and is well planned, well conducted and
clearly presented.
Major Compulsory Revisions
-- No significant remarks
Minor Essential Revisions
1. Lines 274 -275: In terms of patient characteristics, patients who missed their
appointment were more likely to be… black…
-- While the data (as presented at Tab 1) clearly show that the majority of the
African American patients included to the presented study fail to attend the
scheduled endoscopic procedure/s, the figures do not reach level of statistical
significance and should probably be interpreted as a trend and not as a clear and
statistically significant finding.
2. Difference/s in appointment keeping by the type of the procedure (“Routine” vs
“Advanced”) is mentioned (line 273) as a statistically significant one, with the
specific reference (line 267) to the results presented in Tab1.
-- I would suggest that Tab 1 would also include a p-value for the difference/s.
The same signal is reported based to the results of the multivariable modeling
(lines 292-293, Tab 2), this time clearly showing the significance value.
3. Line 286: (No-show rates were observed in) those with heavy prescription
opioids or benzodiazepines use…
-- While the trend is clear, technically, p-value of 0.053 (Tab 2) in at the edge of
the statistical significance.
Discretionary Revisions
-- No comments
Level of interest: An article of importance in its field
Quality of written English: Acceptable
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:Prevalence and predictors of patient no-shows to outpatient endoscopic
procedures scheduled with anesthesia
Version:2Date:10 June 2015
Reviewer: Lev Lichtenstein
Reviewer's report:
The reviewed work has significant merit, and is well planned, well conducted and
clearly presented.
Major Compulsory Revisions
-- No significant remarks
Minor Essential Revisions
1. Lines 274 -275: In terms of patient characteristics, patients who missed their
appointment were more likely to be… black…
-- While the data (as presented at Tab 1) clearly show that the majority of the
African American patients included to the presented study fail to attend the
scheduled endoscopic procedure/s, the figures do not reach level of statistical
significance and should probably be interpreted as a trend and not as a clear and
statistically significant finding.
2. Difference/s in appointment keeping by the type of the procedure (“Routine” vs
“Advanced”) is mentioned (line 273) as a statistically significant one, with the
specific reference (line 267) to the results presented in Tab1.
-- I would suggest that Tab 1 would also include a p-value for the difference/s.
The same signal is reported based to the results of the multivariable modeling
(lines 292-293, Tab 2), this time clearly showing the significance value.
3. Line 286: (No-show rates were observed in) those with heavy prescription
opioids or benzodiazepines use…
-- While the trend is clear, technically, p-value of 0.053 (Tab 2) in at the edge of
the statistical significance.
Discretionary Revisions
-- No comments
Level of interest: An article of importance in its field
Quality of written English: Acceptable
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:Prevalence and predictors of patient no-shows to outpatient endoscopic
procedures scheduled with anesthesia
Version:2Date:10 June 2015
Reviewer: Lev Lichtenstein
Reviewer's report:
The reviewed work has significant merit, and is well planned, well conducted and
clearly presented.
Major Compulsory Revisions
-- No significant remarks
Minor Essential Revisions
1. Lines 274 -275: In terms of patient characteristics, patients who missed their
appointment were more likely to be… black…
-- While the data (as presented at Tab 1) clearly show that the majority of the
African American patients included to the presented study fail to attend the
scheduled endoscopic procedure/s, the figures do not reach level of statistical
significance and should probably be interpreted as a trend and not as a clear and
statistically significant finding.
2. Difference/s in appointment keeping by the type of the procedure (“Routine” vs
“Advanced”) is mentioned (line 273) as a statistically significant one, with the
specific reference (line 267) to the results presented in Tab1.
-- I would suggest that Tab 1 would also include a p-value for the difference/s.
The same signal is reported based to the results of the multivariable modeling
(lines 292-293, Tab 2), this time clearly showing the significance value.
3. Line 286: (No-show rates were observed in) those with heavy prescription
opioids or benzodiazepines use…
-- While the trend is clear, technically, p-value of 0.053 (Tab 2) in at the edge of
the statistical significance.
Discretionary Revisions
-- No comments
Level of interest: An article of importance in its field
Quality of written English: Acceptable
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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