Reviewer's report
Title:GERD assessment including pH metry predicts a high response rate to PPI
standard therapy.
Version: 1Date:22 November 2012
Reviewer: Tom&aacute;s Navarro-Rodriguez
Reviewer's report:
This is a very interesting study because only naive PPI patients were included.
The methodology is adequate despite the small number of patients. Thirty-one
patients were included with three different diagnosis (NERD, Erosive esophagitis
and Barrett's esophagus).
The following quoted sentence " patients with NERD diagnosed based on
abnormal pH metry had similar response rates to esomeprazole as ERD" cannot
be a conclusion because of the limited sample.
It would be possible to accept it for publication as a Brief Report.
Level of interest: An article of limited interest
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a
statistician.
Declaration of competing interests:
I declare that I have no competing interests.
Reviewer's report
Title:GERD assessment including pH metry predicts a high response rate to PPI
standard therapy.
Version: 1Date:22 November 2012
Reviewer: Tom&aacute;s Navarro-Rodriguez
Reviewer's report:
This is a very interesting study because only naive PPI patients were included.
The methodology is adequate despite the small number of patients. Thirty-one
patients were included with three different diagnosis (NERD, Erosive esophagitis
and Barrett's esophagus).
The following quoted sentence " patients with NERD diagnosed based on
abnormal pH metry had similar response rates to esomeprazole as ERD" cannot
be a conclusion because of the limited sample.
It would be possible to accept it for publication as a Brief Report.
Level of interest: An article of limited interest
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a
statistician.
Declaration of competing interests:
I declare that I have no competing interests.
Please review this paper.
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Reviewer's report
Title:GERD assessment including pH metry predicts a high response rate to PPI
standard therapy.
Version: 1Date:22 November 2012
Reviewer: Tom&aacute;s Navarro-Rodriguez
Reviewer's report:
This is a very interesting study because only naive PPI patients were included.
The methodology is adequate despite the small number of patients. Thirty-one
patients were included with three different diagnosis (NERD, Erosive esophagitis
and Barrett's esophagus).
The following quoted sentence " patients with NERD diagnosed based on
abnormal pH metry had similar response rates to esomeprazole as ERD" cannot
be a conclusion because of the limited sample.
It would be possible to accept it for publication as a Brief Report.
Level of interest: An article of limited interest
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a
statistician.
Declaration of competing interests:
I declare that I have no competing interests.
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