Reviewer's report
Title:First attack of acute pancreatitis in Sweden 1988 - 2003: incidence,
aetiological classification, procedures and mortality - a register study
Version: 1Date:9 November 2008
Reviewer: Masahiko Hirota
Reviewer's report:
This is an important report on acute pancreatitis. However, the following remarks
need to be addressed.
Major:
1. High percentage of other etiologies is the week point of this manuscript.
According to the data on Table 5, many patients with other diagnoses were
received sphincterotomy and cholecystectomy. This fact means that the quality of
the data in this manuscript is too poor. Authors should make efforts to obtain
correctly specified etioloties. Furtheremore, authors should discriminate between
the idiopathic pancreatitis and pancreatitis with other minor etiologies. The details
of the etiologies other than alcohol and gallstone should also be specified.
2. Please specify the definitions of alcohol-related pancreatitis and biliary
pancreatitis in Sweden.
3. Please compare the incidence and mortality with the data from other countries.
4. Overall mortality should also be described (Table 6).
Minor:
1. There are some typographical errors.
2. In Tables 1, 2, and 6, equal stratification of age may give the readers better
informations.
3. What is the difference between Table 6 and Table 7? What does "cause of
death" mean? Please describe on this matter more plitely.
Level of interest: An article of importance in its field
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:First attack of acute pancreatitis in Sweden 1988 - 2003: incidence,
aetiological classification, procedures and mortality - a register study
Version: 1Date:9 November 2008
Reviewer: Masahiko Hirota
Reviewer's report:
This is an important report on acute pancreatitis. However, the following remarks
need to be addressed.
Major:
1. High percentage of other etiologies is the week point of this manuscript.
According to the data on Table 5, many patients with other diagnoses were
received sphincterotomy and cholecystectomy. This fact means that the quality of
the data in this manuscript is too poor. Authors should make efforts to obtain
correctly specified etioloties. Furtheremore, authors should discriminate between
the idiopathic pancreatitis and pancreatitis with other minor etiologies. The details
of the etiologies other than alcohol and gallstone should also be specified.
2. Please specify the definitions of alcohol-related pancreatitis and biliary
pancreatitis in Sweden.
3. Please compare the incidence and mortality with the data from other countries.
4. Overall mortality should also be described (Table 6).
Minor:
1. There are some typographical errors.
2. In Tables 1, 2, and 6, equal stratification of age may give the readers better
informations.
3. What is the difference between Table 6 and Table 7? What does "cause of
death" mean? Please describe on this matter more plitely.
Level of interest: An article of importance in its field
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:First attack of acute pancreatitis in Sweden 1988 - 2003: incidence,
aetiological classification, procedures and mortality - a register study
Version: 1Date:9 November 2008
Reviewer: Masahiko Hirota
Reviewer's report:
This is an important report on acute pancreatitis. However, the following remarks
need to be addressed.
Major:
1. High percentage of other etiologies is the week point of this manuscript.
According to the data on Table 5, many patients with other diagnoses were
received sphincterotomy and cholecystectomy. This fact means that the quality of
the data in this manuscript is too poor. Authors should make efforts to obtain
correctly specified etioloties. Furtheremore, authors should discriminate between
the idiopathic pancreatitis and pancreatitis with other minor etiologies. The details
of the etiologies other than alcohol and gallstone should also be specified.
2. Please specify the definitions of alcohol-related pancreatitis and biliary
pancreatitis in Sweden.
3. Please compare the incidence and mortality with the data from other countries.
4. Overall mortality should also be described (Table 6).
Minor:
1. There are some typographical errors.
2. In Tables 1, 2, and 6, equal stratification of age may give the readers better
informations.
3. What is the difference between Table 6 and Table 7? What does "cause of
death" mean? Please describe on this matter more plitely.
Level of interest: An article of importance in its field
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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