Title: Risk Indices Predicting Graft use, Graft and Patient Survival in Solid Pancreas
Transplantation: A Systematic Review
Version: 0 Date: 26 Jan 2021
Reviewer's report:
Thank you for the privilege of reviewing your manuscript. It is a well written systematic review
on risk indices for pancreas transplantation. I have some concerns, however, about the database
search strategies:
1. keywords for pancreas transplantation can be more sensitive, such as pancreas adj3
transplant*.mp. This would ensure not missing relevant citations.
2. There are some irregularities in how the search sets were combined. For example in the
Embase search you OR together lines 1 through 6, but then don't use that line in your result set.
A similar problem is seen in your Medline search.
3. When searching for risk indices it would have been better to use a validated
search filter such as the filter for clinical prediction guides from the Health Information
Research Unit at McMaster University: Wong SS, Wilczynski NL, Haynes RB,
Ramkissoonsingh R. Developing optimal search strategies for detecting sound clinical
prediction studies in MEDLINE. Proc AMIA Symp. 2003;:728-32. https://hiru.mcmaster.ca/
hiru/hiru_hedges_medline_strategies.aspx#ClinicalPredictionGuides
Title: Risk Indices Predicting Graft use, Graft and Patient Survival in Solid Pancreas
Transplantation: A Systematic Review
Version: 0 Date: 26 Jan 2021
Reviewer's report:
Thank you for the privilege of reviewing your manuscript. It is a well written systematic review
on risk indices for pancreas transplantation. I have some concerns, however, about the database
search strategies:
1. keywords for pancreas transplantation can be more sensitive, such as pancreas adj3
transplant*.mp. This would ensure not missing relevant citations.
2. There are some irregularities in how the search sets were combined. For example in the
Embase search you OR together lines 1 through 6, but then don't use that line in your result set.
A similar problem is seen in your Medline search.
3. When searching for risk indices it would have been better to use a validated
search filter such as the filter for clinical prediction guides from the Health Information
Research Unit at McMaster University: Wong SS, Wilczynski NL, Haynes RB,
Ramkissoonsingh R. Developing optimal search strategies for detecting sound clinical
prediction studies in MEDLINE. Proc AMIA Symp. 2003;:728-32. https://hiru.mcmaster.ca/
hiru/hiru_hedges_medline_strategies.aspx#ClinicalPredictionGuides
Please review this paper.
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Title: Risk Indices Predicting Graft use, Graft and Patient Survival in Solid Pancreas
Transplantation: A Systematic Review
Version: 0 Date: 26 Jan 2021
Reviewer's report:
Thank you for the privilege of reviewing your manuscript. It is a well written systematic review
on risk indices for pancreas transplantation. I have some concerns, however, about the database
search strategies:
1. keywords for pancreas transplantation can be more sensitive, such as pancreas adj3
transplant*.mp. This would ensure not missing relevant citations.
2. There are some irregularities in how the search sets were combined. For example in the
Embase search you OR together lines 1 through 6, but then don't use that line in your result set.
A similar problem is seen in your Medline search.
3. When searching for risk indices it would have been better to use a validated
search filter such as the filter for clinical prediction guides from the Health Information
Research Unit at McMaster University: Wong SS, Wilczynski NL, Haynes RB,
Ramkissoonsingh R. Developing optimal search strategies for detecting sound clinical
prediction studies in MEDLINE. Proc AMIA Symp. 2003;:728-32. https://hiru.mcmaster.ca/
hiru/hiru_hedges_medline_strategies.aspx#ClinicalPredictionGuides
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