Reviewer's report
Title:Symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux disease in severely mentally
retarded people: a systematic review.
Version: 2Date:26 April 2008
Reviewer: Yoshikazu Kinoshita
Reviewer's report:
The authors of this manuscript investigated the symptoms and signs of GERD in
mentally retarded people by a systematic review of publications. The study is well
designed and well performed. The information obtained by this systematic review
will be a good help for health-care workers working on patients with mental
retardation. The weak point of this study is the wide range variations of the
publications collected from this systematic publication search. Enrollement
criteria and endopoint of the study are so different between studies. Because of
this wide variation, the majour part of the manuscript is too descriptive and, in
some parts, is just a summary of the past publications.
Level of interest: An article of importance in its field
Quality of written English: Acceptable
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:Symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux disease in severely mentally
retarded people: a systematic review.
Version: 2Date:26 April 2008
Reviewer: Yoshikazu Kinoshita
Reviewer's report:
The authors of this manuscript investigated the symptoms and signs of GERD in
mentally retarded people by a systematic review of publications. The study is well
designed and well performed. The information obtained by this systematic review
will be a good help for health-care workers working on patients with mental
retardation. The weak point of this study is the wide range variations of the
publications collected from this systematic publication search. Enrollement
criteria and endopoint of the study are so different between studies. Because of
this wide variation, the majour part of the manuscript is too descriptive and, in
some parts, is just a summary of the past publications.
Level of interest: An article of importance in its field
Quality of written English: Acceptable
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:Symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux disease in severely mentally
retarded people: a systematic review.
Version: 2Date:26 April 2008
Reviewer: Yoshikazu Kinoshita
Reviewer's report:
The authors of this manuscript investigated the symptoms and signs of GERD in
mentally retarded people by a systematic review of publications. The study is well
designed and well performed. The information obtained by this systematic review
will be a good help for health-care workers working on patients with mental
retardation. The weak point of this study is the wide range variations of the
publications collected from this systematic publication search. Enrollement
criteria and endopoint of the study are so different between studies. Because of
this wide variation, the majour part of the manuscript is too descriptive and, in
some parts, is just a summary of the past publications.
Level of interest: An article of importance in its field
Quality of written English: Acceptable
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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