Reviewer's report
Title:A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis: Probiotics in the treatment of
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Version: 2Date:12 June 2008
Reviewer: Lisa Conboy
Reviewer's report:
This article is important and well-accomplished. I have only a few minor
comments.
1-In the abstract, "Longer terms trials are recommended" the "L" should not be a
capital letter.
2-In Literature search section please tell the teader when the searching was
done; months and year.
3-Page 5 first paragraph offers Bittner as the example of an excluded study.
Please tell the reader an example of how studies may have not treated the
groups equally and then end sentence with Bittner citation.
4-In the limitations mention why the readers were not blinded to the citation
information and waht bias might be introduced because of this.
Level of interest: An article of outstanding merit and interest in its field
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:A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis: Probiotics in the treatment of
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Version: 2Date:12 June 2008
Reviewer: Lisa Conboy
Reviewer's report:
This article is important and well-accomplished. I have only a few minor
comments.
1-In the abstract, "Longer terms trials are recommended" the "L" should not be a
capital letter.
2-In Literature search section please tell the teader when the searching was
done; months and year.
3-Page 5 first paragraph offers Bittner as the example of an excluded study.
Please tell the reader an example of how studies may have not treated the
groups equally and then end sentence with Bittner citation.
4-In the limitations mention why the readers were not blinded to the citation
information and waht bias might be introduced because of this.
Level of interest: An article of outstanding merit and interest in its field
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:A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis: Probiotics in the treatment of
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Version: 2Date:12 June 2008
Reviewer: Lisa Conboy
Reviewer's report:
This article is important and well-accomplished. I have only a few minor
comments.
1-In the abstract, "Longer terms trials are recommended" the "L" should not be a
capital letter.
2-In Literature search section please tell the teader when the searching was
done; months and year.
3-Page 5 first paragraph offers Bittner as the example of an excluded study.
Please tell the reader an example of how studies may have not treated the
groups equally and then end sentence with Bittner citation.
4-In the limitations mention why the readers were not blinded to the citation
information and waht bias might be introduced because of this.
Level of interest: An article of outstanding merit and interest in its field
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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