Title: Factors associated with patency of self-expandable metal stents in malignant biliary
obstruction
Version: 3 Date: 20 Aug 2023
Reviewer's report:
Thank you for the opportunity  to review the revised manuscript.
The corrections I suggested have been made satisfactorily except one which may be a
grammatical misunderstanding.  The primary outcome needs to be an event: ie, "the occurrence
of stent dysfunction".  The factors that cause it are an analysis of the outcome, they cannot be
the outcome itself.
Title: Factors associated with patency of self-expandable metal stents in malignant biliary
obstruction
Version: 3 Date: 20 Aug 2023
Reviewer's report:
Thank you for the opportunity  to review the revised manuscript.
The corrections I suggested have been made satisfactorily except one which may be a
grammatical misunderstanding.  The primary outcome needs to be an event: ie, "the occurrence
of stent dysfunction".  The factors that cause it are an analysis of the outcome, they cannot be
the outcome itself.
Please review this paper.
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Title: Factors associated with patency of self-expandable metal stents in malignant biliary
obstruction
Version: 3 Date: 20 Aug 2023
Reviewer's report:
Thank you for the opportunity  to review the revised manuscript.
The corrections I suggested have been made satisfactorily except one which may be a
grammatical misunderstanding.  The primary outcome needs to be an event: ie, "the occurrence
of stent dysfunction".  The factors that cause it are an analysis of the outcome, they cannot be
the outcome itself.
assistant