Reviewer's report 
 Development and psychometric testing of the Visual Analogue Scale for Irritable Bowel Syndrome Title: 
(VAS-IBS) 
 2  27 February 2007 Version: Date: 
 Margaret Reilly Reviewer: 
Reviewer's report: 
General 
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Major Compulsory Revisions (that the author must respond to before a decision on publication can be 
reached) 
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Minor Essential Revisions (such as missing labels on figures, or the wrong use of a term, which the author 
can be trusted to correct) 
Grammatical errors in last sentence before Discussion and the last item in the questionnaire, Appendix 1. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Discretionary Revisions (which the author can choose to ignore) 
 Accept after minor essential revisions What next?: 
 An article of importance in its field Level of interest: 
 Acceptable Quality of written English: 
 No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a statistician. Statistical review: 
Declaration of competing interests: 
I declare that I have no competing interests. 
Reviewer's report 
 Development and psychometric testing of the Visual Analogue Scale for Irritable Bowel Syndrome Title: 
(VAS-IBS) 
 2  27 February 2007 Version: Date: 
 Margaret Reilly Reviewer: 
Reviewer's report: 
General 
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Major Compulsory Revisions (that the author must respond to before a decision on publication can be 
reached) 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
Minor Essential Revisions (such as missing labels on figures, or the wrong use of a term, which the author 
can be trusted to correct) 
Grammatical errors in last sentence before Discussion and the last item in the questionnaire, Appendix 1. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Discretionary Revisions (which the author can choose to ignore) 
 Accept after minor essential revisions What next?: 
 An article of importance in its field Level of interest: 
 Acceptable Quality of written English: 
 No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a statistician. Statistical review: 
Declaration of competing interests: 
I declare that I have no competing interests. 
Please review this paper.
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Reviewer's report 
 Development and psychometric testing of the Visual Analogue Scale for Irritable Bowel Syndrome Title: 
(VAS-IBS) 
 2  27 February 2007 Version: Date: 
 Margaret Reilly Reviewer: 
Reviewer's report: 
General 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
Major Compulsory Revisions (that the author must respond to before a decision on publication can be 
reached) 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
Minor Essential Revisions (such as missing labels on figures, or the wrong use of a term, which the author 
can be trusted to correct) 
Grammatical errors in last sentence before Discussion and the last item in the questionnaire, Appendix 1. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Discretionary Revisions (which the author can choose to ignore) 
 Accept after minor essential revisions What next?: 
 An article of importance in its field Level of interest: 
 Acceptable Quality of written English: 
 No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a statistician. Statistical review: 
Declaration of competing interests: 
I declare that I have no competing interests. 
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