Reviewer's report
Title:Mortality following acute pancreatitis: social deprivation, hospital size and
time of admission: record linkage study
Version:3Date:2 February 2014
Reviewer: Marcel M Spanier
Reviewer's report:
Generally, the manuscript is still not easy to read because to much data are
reported and listed in the Tables and the data or not always easily ordered.
The authors did not report separately first versus recurrent attacks. Now they
comment in the footnotes... should be in the manuscript itself or in the Result
section
The authors do not comment on " unique cases", meaning an true unique
person, identified on e.g. sex, birth date, race,... How was this checked?
The definition of a first attack is still weak. The time period of preceding 60 days,
should be al least one year.
Level of interest: An article of limited interest
Quality of written English: Not suitable for publication unless extensively edited
Statistical review: Yes, but I do not feel adequately qualified to assess the
statistics.
Declaration of competing interests:
I declare that I have no competing interests
Reviewer's report
Title:Mortality following acute pancreatitis: social deprivation, hospital size and
time of admission: record linkage study
Version:3Date:2 February 2014
Reviewer: Marcel M Spanier
Reviewer's report:
Generally, the manuscript is still not easy to read because to much data are
reported and listed in the Tables and the data or not always easily ordered.
The authors did not report separately first versus recurrent attacks. Now they
comment in the footnotes... should be in the manuscript itself or in the Result
section
The authors do not comment on " unique cases", meaning an true unique
person, identified on e.g. sex, birth date, race,... How was this checked?
The definition of a first attack is still weak. The time period of preceding 60 days,
should be al least one year.
Level of interest: An article of limited interest
Quality of written English: Not suitable for publication unless extensively edited
Statistical review: Yes, but I do not feel adequately qualified to assess the
statistics.
Declaration of competing interests:
I declare that I have no competing interests
Please review this paper.
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Reviewer's report
Title:Mortality following acute pancreatitis: social deprivation, hospital size and
time of admission: record linkage study
Version:3Date:2 February 2014
Reviewer: Marcel M Spanier
Reviewer's report:
Generally, the manuscript is still not easy to read because to much data are
reported and listed in the Tables and the data or not always easily ordered.
The authors did not report separately first versus recurrent attacks. Now they
comment in the footnotes... should be in the manuscript itself or in the Result
section
The authors do not comment on " unique cases", meaning an true unique
person, identified on e.g. sex, birth date, race,... How was this checked?
The definition of a first attack is still weak. The time period of preceding 60 days,
should be al least one year.
Level of interest: An article of limited interest
Quality of written English: Not suitable for publication unless extensively edited
Statistical review: Yes, but I do not feel adequately qualified to assess the
statistics.
Declaration of competing interests:
I declare that I have no competing interests
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