Title: Prognostic Risk Factors for Pyogenic Liver Abscess Caused by Klebsiella pneumoniae
Version: 7 Date: 23 Jul 2024
Reviewer's report:
Same conclusion: In conclusion, some variables might, after correction, be statistically
significantly associated with ICU admission and shock, but whether this association is relevant
remains un-known (e.g., OR 1.04 (1.02-1.07) for PCT).
Some corrections have been made, but the language quality is rather poor. E.g.: “in a teritary
care hospital with a 20 beds in ICU”
In Abstract, methods
- “We investigated patients” : the authors did not investigate patients. It was a retrospective
study. They analysed data from patients that were…
- it still says caused by klebsiella infection. The word infection is still redundant.
Table 1: reference values are still missing.
Table 3: sentence is still incomplete / non-English. Decimals of percentages are still used
inappro-priately.
Table 4, 5 und 6. inadequate use of decimals (for both variables and p values). Table 4 is
there-fore hardly readable. In these tables, Bonferroni corrections are needed according to my
knowledge of statistics. The authors are conducting multiple statistical tests simultaneously.
Each test increases the risk of Type I error, and the correction helps control the overall error
rate. You state in the abstract: “we sought to identify factors associated with..” this is exactly
why you need to do this correction.
“P value” is not written uniformly.
Title: Prognostic Risk Factors for Pyogenic Liver Abscess Caused by Klebsiella pneumoniae
Version: 7 Date: 23 Jul 2024
Reviewer's report:
Same conclusion: In conclusion, some variables might, after correction, be statistically
significantly associated with ICU admission and shock, but whether this association is relevant
remains un-known (e.g., OR 1.04 (1.02-1.07) for PCT).
Some corrections have been made, but the language quality is rather poor. E.g.: “in a teritary
care hospital with a 20 beds in ICU”
In Abstract, methods
- “We investigated patients” : the authors did not investigate patients. It was a retrospective
study. They analysed data from patients that were…
- it still says caused by klebsiella infection. The word infection is still redundant.
Table 1: reference values are still missing.
Table 3: sentence is still incomplete / non-English. Decimals of percentages are still used
inappro-priately.
Table 4, 5 und 6. inadequate use of decimals (for both variables and p values). Table 4 is
there-fore hardly readable. In these tables, Bonferroni corrections are needed according to my
knowledge of statistics. The authors are conducting multiple statistical tests simultaneously.
Each test increases the risk of Type I error, and the correction helps control the overall error
rate. You state in the abstract: “we sought to identify factors associated with..” this is exactly
why you need to do this correction.
“P value” is not written uniformly.
Please review this paper.
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Title: Prognostic Risk Factors for Pyogenic Liver Abscess Caused by Klebsiella pneumoniae
Version: 7 Date: 23 Jul 2024
Reviewer's report:
Same conclusion: In conclusion, some variables might, after correction, be statistically
significantly associated with ICU admission and shock, but whether this association is relevant
remains un-known (e.g., OR 1.04 (1.02-1.07) for PCT).
Some corrections have been made, but the language quality is rather poor. E.g.: “in a teritary
care hospital with a 20 beds in ICU”
In Abstract, methods
- “We investigated patients” : the authors did not investigate patients. It was a retrospective
study. They analysed data from patients that were…
- it still says caused by klebsiella infection. The word infection is still redundant.
Table 1: reference values are still missing.
Table 3: sentence is still incomplete / non-English. Decimals of percentages are still used
inappro-priately.
Table 4, 5 und 6. inadequate use of decimals (for both variables and p values). Table 4 is
there-fore hardly readable. In these tables, Bonferroni corrections are needed according to my
knowledge of statistics. The authors are conducting multiple statistical tests simultaneously.
Each test increases the risk of Type I error, and the correction helps control the overall error
rate. You state in the abstract: “we sought to identify factors associated with..” this is exactly
why you need to do this correction.
“P value” is not written uniformly.
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