Reviewer's report
Title:A candidate probiotic with unfavourable effects in subjects with irritable
bowel syndrome: a randomised controlled trial
Version: 2Date:12 November 2009
Reviewer: Joanna Stewart
Reviewer's report:
Discretionary. The authors have complied with my suggestion of not quoting the
individual item p values in the text because of their correlation with the combined
scores. However I had also suggested these p values (ie for the individual items)
would be better removed from table 1 while leaving the other 3 columns for these
items. This has not been done and I am prepared to leave it to the discretion of
the authors.
Level of interest: An article of importance in its field
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:A candidate probiotic with unfavourable effects in subjects with irritable
bowel syndrome: a randomised controlled trial
Version: 2Date:12 November 2009
Reviewer: Joanna Stewart
Reviewer's report:
Discretionary. The authors have complied with my suggestion of not quoting the
individual item p values in the text because of their correlation with the combined
scores. However I had also suggested these p values (ie for the individual items)
would be better removed from table 1 while leaving the other 3 columns for these
items. This has not been done and I am prepared to leave it to the discretion of
the authors.
Level of interest: An article of importance in its field
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:A candidate probiotic with unfavourable effects in subjects with irritable
bowel syndrome: a randomised controlled trial
Version: 2Date:12 November 2009
Reviewer: Joanna Stewart
Reviewer's report:
Discretionary. The authors have complied with my suggestion of not quoting the
individual item p values in the text because of their correlation with the combined
scores. However I had also suggested these p values (ie for the individual items)
would be better removed from table 1 while leaving the other 3 columns for these
items. This has not been done and I am prepared to leave it to the discretion of
the authors.
Level of interest: An article of importance in its field
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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