Reviewer's report
Title:Use of Pethidine for Percutaneous Liver Biopsy - A Randomised,
placebo-controlled, double blind study - original article
Version:4Date:19 November 2014
Reviewer: Akira Imoto
Reviewer's report:
Major
1. What is the indication of liver biopsy in your institute? Author should describe it
in Methods.
2. Did you compare the collection quantity, the diagnostic ability, and final
diagnosis of specimens of liver biopsy between 2 groups? If you evaluate them,
please describe the details in Results and Discussion.
Minor
1. What is the MELD score? Please explain its details and abbreviation in
Methods.
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.
Reviewer's report
Title:Use of Pethidine for Percutaneous Liver Biopsy - A Randomised,
placebo-controlled, double blind study - original article
Version:4Date:19 November 2014
Reviewer: Akira Imoto
Reviewer's report:
Major
1. What is the indication of liver biopsy in your institute? Author should describe it
in Methods.
2. Did you compare the collection quantity, the diagnostic ability, and final
diagnosis of specimens of liver biopsy between 2 groups? If you evaluate them,
please describe the details in Results and Discussion.
Minor
1. What is the MELD score? Please explain its details and abbreviation in
Methods.
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.
Please review this paper.
user
Reviewer's report
Title:Use of Pethidine for Percutaneous Liver Biopsy - A Randomised,
placebo-controlled, double blind study - original article
Version:4Date:19 November 2014
Reviewer: Akira Imoto
Reviewer's report:
Major
1. What is the indication of liver biopsy in your institute? Author should describe it
in Methods.
2. Did you compare the collection quantity, the diagnostic ability, and final
diagnosis of specimens of liver biopsy between 2 groups? If you evaluate them,
please describe the details in Results and Discussion.
Minor
1. What is the MELD score? Please explain its details and abbreviation in
Methods.
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.
assistant