Reviewer's report
Title:Clinical Impact of Body Mass Index on Bactibilia and Bacteremia
Version:2Date:14 May 2014
Reviewer: Ali Azarm
Reviewer's report:
As a retrospective study in a single center reviewing 139 patients who underwent
cholecystectomy for calculous cholecystitis comparing the bactibilia and
bacteremia and its relation with BMI, the most important question which was not
addressed is the power of study statistically.
The authors have not addressed in the background other studies about
prevalence of bactibilia and bacteremia in other studies. This can be added to the
manuscript by a quick literature search.
The authors do not analyze and discuss the relation of infection with hospital stay
that they quoted on line 63.
In the bacteriologic analysis section, no statistical calculation ( p value) of certain
detected bacteria addressed. it needs to be added to manuscripts.
As a secondary outcome, it would be more reasonable to look at the mortality
rate of each group (positive or negative bactibilia and bacteremia) and its relation
to BMI since in the discussion part the authors have addressed other studies
mortality rate.
Level of interest: An article of limited interest
Quality of written English: Acceptable
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 Impact of Body Mass Index on Bactibilia and Bacteremia
Version:2Date:14 May 2014
Reviewer: Ali Azarm
Reviewer's report:
As a retrospective study in a single center reviewing 139 patients who underwent
cholecystectomy for calculous cholecystitis comparing the bactibilia and
bacteremia and its relation with BMI, the most important question which was not
addressed is the power of study statistically.
The authors have not addressed in the background other studies about
prevalence of bactibilia and bacteremia in other studies. This can be added to the
manuscript by a quick literature search.
The authors do not analyze and discuss the relation of infection with hospital stay
that they quoted on line 63.
In the bacteriologic analysis section, no statistical calculation ( p value) of certain
detected bacteria addressed. it needs to be added to manuscripts.
As a secondary outcome, it would be more reasonable to look at the mortality
rate of each group (positive or negative bactibilia and bacteremia) and its relation
to BMI since in the discussion part the authors have addressed other studies
mortality rate.
Level of interest: An article of limited interest
Quality of written English: Acceptable
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 Impact of Body Mass Index on Bactibilia and Bacteremia
Version:2Date:14 May 2014
Reviewer: Ali Azarm
Reviewer's report:
As a retrospective study in a single center reviewing 139 patients who underwent
cholecystectomy for calculous cholecystitis comparing the bactibilia and
bacteremia and its relation with BMI, the most important question which was not
addressed is the power of study statistically.
The authors have not addressed in the background other studies about
prevalence of bactibilia and bacteremia in other studies. This can be added to the
manuscript by a quick literature search.
The authors do not analyze and discuss the relation of infection with hospital stay
that they quoted on line 63.
In the bacteriologic analysis section, no statistical calculation ( p value) of certain
detected bacteria addressed. it needs to be added to manuscripts.
As a secondary outcome, it would be more reasonable to look at the mortality
rate of each group (positive or negative bactibilia and bacteremia) and its relation
to BMI since in the discussion part the authors have addressed other studies
mortality rate.
Level of interest: An article of limited interest
Quality of written English: Acceptable
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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