Reviewer's report
Title:Clinical efficacy of B-mode ultrasound-guided percutaneous transhepatic
gallbladder drainage followed by laparoscopic cholecystectomy for acute
cholecystitis in high-risk elderly patients
Version:5Date:2 March 2015
Reviewer: Sujoy Pal
Reviewer's report:
Major compulsory revisions
Please have a look at the uploaded manuscript with highlighted passages which
are required to be addressed by the authors adequately and appropriately
revised. Need to clarify the selection criteria, criteria for labelling a patient elderly
and the process of selection of historical controls. also need to mention how the
skill levels of the operating surgeons were comparable when both the groups
were taken into consideration. a table needs to be deleted. make sure that the
refs are in journal style.
Level of interest: An article whose findings are important to those with closely
related research interests
Quality of written English: Needs some language corrections before being
published
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:Clinical efficacy of B-mode ultrasound-guided percutaneous transhepatic
gallbladder drainage followed by laparoscopic cholecystectomy for acute
cholecystitis in high-risk elderly patients
Version:5Date:2 March 2015
Reviewer: Sujoy Pal
Reviewer's report:
Major compulsory revisions
Please have a look at the uploaded manuscript with highlighted passages which
are required to be addressed by the authors adequately and appropriately
revised. Need to clarify the selection criteria, criteria for labelling a patient elderly
and the process of selection of historical controls. also need to mention how the
skill levels of the operating surgeons were comparable when both the groups
were taken into consideration. a table needs to be deleted. make sure that the
refs are in journal style.
Level of interest: An article whose findings are important to those with closely
related research interests
Quality of written English: Needs some language corrections before being
published
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:Clinical efficacy of B-mode ultrasound-guided percutaneous transhepatic
gallbladder drainage followed by laparoscopic cholecystectomy for acute
cholecystitis in high-risk elderly patients
Version:5Date:2 March 2015
Reviewer: Sujoy Pal
Reviewer's report:
Major compulsory revisions
Please have a look at the uploaded manuscript with highlighted passages which
are required to be addressed by the authors adequately and appropriately
revised. Need to clarify the selection criteria, criteria for labelling a patient elderly
and the process of selection of historical controls. also need to mention how the
skill levels of the operating surgeons were comparable when both the groups
were taken into consideration. a table needs to be deleted. make sure that the
refs are in journal style.
Level of interest: An article whose findings are important to those with closely
related research interests
Quality of written English: Needs some language corrections before being
published
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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