Reviewer's report 
 Gastrointestinal failure in intensive care: a retrospective clinical study in three different intensive care Title: 
units in Germany and Estonia. 
 6  5 June 2006 Version: Date: 
 Bekele Afessa Reviewer: 
Reviewer's report: 
General 
I congratulate the authors for this excellent manuscript. I have no comments. 
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Reviewer's report 
 Gastrointestinal failure in intensive care: a retrospective clinical study in three different intensive care Title: 
units in Germany and Estonia. 
 6  5 June 2006 Version: Date: 
 Bekele Afessa Reviewer: 
Reviewer's report: 
General 
I congratulate the authors for this excellent manuscript. I have no comments. 
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Major Compulsory Revisions (that the author must respond to before a decision on publication can be 
reached) 
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Minor Essential Revisions (such as missing labels on figures, or the wrong use of a term, which the author 
can be trusted to correct) 
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Discretionary Revisions (which the author can choose to ignore) 
 Accept without revision What next?: 
 An article of importance in its field Level of interest: 
 Acceptable Quality of written English: 
 No Statistical review: 
Declaration of competing interests: 
I declare that I have no competing interests. 
Please review this paper.
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Reviewer's report 
 Gastrointestinal failure in intensive care: a retrospective clinical study in three different intensive care Title: 
units in Germany and Estonia. 
 6  5 June 2006 Version: Date: 
 Bekele Afessa Reviewer: 
Reviewer's report: 
General 
I congratulate the authors for this excellent manuscript. I have no comments. 
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Major Compulsory Revisions (that the author must respond to before a decision on publication can be 
reached) 
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Minor Essential Revisions (such as missing labels on figures, or the wrong use of a term, which the author 
can be trusted to correct) 
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Discretionary Revisions (which the author can choose to ignore) 
 Accept without revision What next?: 
 An article of importance in its field Level of interest: 
 Acceptable Quality of written English: 
 No Statistical review: 
Declaration of competing interests: 
I declare that I have no competing interests. 
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