Reviewer's report
Title:Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy for dyspepsia: Exploratory study of
factors influencing patient compliance in Greece
Version: 2Date:4 November 2010
Reviewer: Anna Gagliardi
Reviewer's report:
MINOR ESSENTIAL REVISIONS
Participants
"all interviews were included within the study for th establishment of solid
conclusions" - not clear what this means
"patients were evaluated using a Greek translation..." patient <what> was
evaluated - clinical characteristics, demographic attributes...?
Interview development
"The TPB guided the construction of <an> interview <guide which was>
approved by...
Interview development
"the TPB diagram is clearly illustrated in the <add name/word rather than link?>
Analysis of data
although the authors elaborated on their qualitative methods, further detail about
how the qualitative analysis was undertaken would be helpful, particularly to
naive readers
also, the sentence about multivariate regression analysis needs some
explanation - what data was this analysis used for - to distinguish these methods
from the qualitative methods
"qualitative content analysis was performed since the data that have been drawn
from the interviews were consisted from free responses to the open ended
questions of our survey" - not clear what this means
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: No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a
statistician.
Declaration of competing interests:
I declare that I have no competing interests
Reviewer's report
Title:Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy for dyspepsia: Exploratory study of
factors influencing patient compliance in Greece
Version: 2Date:4 November 2010
Reviewer: Anna Gagliardi
Reviewer's report:
MINOR ESSENTIAL REVISIONS
Participants
"all interviews were included within the study for th establishment of solid
conclusions" - not clear what this means
"patients were evaluated using a Greek translation..." patient <what> was
evaluated - clinical characteristics, demographic attributes...?
Interview development
"The TPB guided the construction of <an> interview <guide which was>
approved by...
Interview development
"the TPB diagram is clearly illustrated in the <add name/word rather than link?>
Analysis of data
although the authors elaborated on their qualitative methods, further detail about
how the qualitative analysis was undertaken would be helpful, particularly to
naive readers
also, the sentence about multivariate regression analysis needs some
explanation - what data was this analysis used for - to distinguish these methods
from the qualitative methods
"qualitative content analysis was performed since the data that have been drawn
from the interviews were consisted from free responses to the open ended
questions of our survey" - not clear what this means
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: No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a
statistician.
Declaration of competing interests:
I declare that I have no competing interests
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Reviewer's report
Title:Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy for dyspepsia: Exploratory study of
factors influencing patient compliance in Greece
Version: 2Date:4 November 2010
Reviewer: Anna Gagliardi
Reviewer's report:
MINOR ESSENTIAL REVISIONS
Participants
"all interviews were included within the study for th establishment of solid
conclusions" - not clear what this means
"patients were evaluated using a Greek translation..." patient <what> was
evaluated - clinical characteristics, demographic attributes...?
Interview development
"The TPB guided the construction of <an> interview <guide which was>
approved by...
Interview development
"the TPB diagram is clearly illustrated in the <add name/word rather than link?>
Analysis of data
although the authors elaborated on their qualitative methods, further detail about
how the qualitative analysis was undertaken would be helpful, particularly to
naive readers
also, the sentence about multivariate regression analysis needs some
explanation - what data was this analysis used for - to distinguish these methods
from the qualitative methods
"qualitative content analysis was performed since the data that have been drawn
from the interviews were consisted from free responses to the open ended
questions of our survey" - not clear what this means
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: No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a
statistician.
Declaration of competing interests:
I declare that I have no competing interests
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