Reviewer's report
Title:A comparison of four fibrosis indexes in chronic HCV: Development of new
fibrosis-cirrhosis index (FCI)
Version: 2Date:15 March 2011
Reviewer: Guillaume PENARANDA
Reviewer's report:
I read with interest the authors responses on the comments that have arisen from
my first review of the manuscript.
As I already commented in my previous review, this study suffers from the
absence of a validation cohort. But in the light of the authors’ responses, I
recommend publication of this manuscript, taking into account that this study
must be validated on an independent cohort.
Minor Essential Revision
Table 4: Odds ratio still doesn’t appear in the table. Only the 95% CI are shown
in table. Please insert OR before final acceptance.
Level of interest: An article whose findings are important to those with closely
related research interests
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 comparison of four fibrosis indexes in chronic HCV: Development of new
fibrosis-cirrhosis index (FCI)
Version: 2Date:15 March 2011
Reviewer: Guillaume PENARANDA
Reviewer's report:
I read with interest the authors responses on the comments that have arisen from
my first review of the manuscript.
As I already commented in my previous review, this study suffers from the
absence of a validation cohort. But in the light of the authors’ responses, I
recommend publication of this manuscript, taking into account that this study
must be validated on an independent cohort.
Minor Essential Revision
Table 4: Odds ratio still doesn’t appear in the table. Only the 95% CI are shown
in table. Please insert OR before final acceptance.
Level of interest: An article whose findings are important to those with closely
related research interests
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
Please review this paper.
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Reviewer's report
Title:A comparison of four fibrosis indexes in chronic HCV: Development of new
fibrosis-cirrhosis index (FCI)
Version: 2Date:15 March 2011
Reviewer: Guillaume PENARANDA
Reviewer's report:
I read with interest the authors responses on the comments that have arisen from
my first review of the manuscript.
As I already commented in my previous review, this study suffers from the
absence of a validation cohort. But in the light of the authors’ responses, I
recommend publication of this manuscript, taking into account that this study
must be validated on an independent cohort.
Minor Essential Revision
Table 4: Odds ratio still doesn’t appear in the table. Only the 95% CI are shown
in table. Please insert OR before final acceptance.
Level of interest: An article whose findings are important to those with closely
related research interests
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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