Reviewer's report
Title:A survey of abnormalities in the colon and rectum in patients presenting
with haemorrhoids.
Version: 2Date:7 April 2010
Reviewer: Wilhelm Graf
Reviewer's report:
The authors have dealed with some of the requests by the reviewrs but not all. It
is a little bit suprising to read that the authors does not realize the need of a
reference group. The main message of the paper is the various findings of
concomittant pathology in pts with haemorrhoids, it might just be the average
findings in the entire material and it would therefore be of interest to relate their
findings to some kind of control group. One alternative would be to make a
random sample from pts without hameorrhoids during the same time period,
another alternative is a pure "healthy control" group, i.e. asymptomatic
individuals from the background population. It is also disturbing to find a
statistical comparison of detetection of polyps when performing a colonoscopy as
compared with sigmoidoscopy.
Level of interest: An article of limited interest
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a
statistician.
Declaration of competing interests:
I have no competing interests.
Reviewer's report
Title:A survey of abnormalities in the colon and rectum in patients presenting
with haemorrhoids.
Version: 2Date:7 April 2010
Reviewer: Wilhelm Graf
Reviewer's report:
The authors have dealed with some of the requests by the reviewrs but not all. It
is a little bit suprising to read that the authors does not realize the need of a
reference group. The main message of the paper is the various findings of
concomittant pathology in pts with haemorrhoids, it might just be the average
findings in the entire material and it would therefore be of interest to relate their
findings to some kind of control group. One alternative would be to make a
random sample from pts without hameorrhoids during the same time period,
another alternative is a pure "healthy control" group, i.e. asymptomatic
individuals from the background population. It is also disturbing to find a
statistical comparison of detetection of polyps when performing a colonoscopy as
compared with sigmoidoscopy.
Level of interest: An article of limited interest
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a
statistician.
Declaration of competing interests:
I have no competing interests.
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Reviewer's report
Title:A survey of abnormalities in the colon and rectum in patients presenting
with haemorrhoids.
Version: 2Date:7 April 2010
Reviewer: Wilhelm Graf
Reviewer's report:
The authors have dealed with some of the requests by the reviewrs but not all. It
is a little bit suprising to read that the authors does not realize the need of a
reference group. The main message of the paper is the various findings of
concomittant pathology in pts with haemorrhoids, it might just be the average
findings in the entire material and it would therefore be of interest to relate their
findings to some kind of control group. One alternative would be to make a
random sample from pts without hameorrhoids during the same time period,
another alternative is a pure "healthy control" group, i.e. asymptomatic
individuals from the background population. It is also disturbing to find a
statistical comparison of detetection of polyps when performing a colonoscopy as
compared with sigmoidoscopy.
Level of interest: An article of limited interest
Quality of written English: Acceptable
Statistical review: No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a
statistician.
Declaration of competing interests:
I have no competing interests.
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