Effects of Probiotics Supplementation on Gastrointestinal Symptoms in Athletes: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
The authors substantially improved the quality of the manuscript after revision, which approprately reflect the current evidence in the literature. Congradulations!
Author Response
Thank you very much for your opinion.
Reviewer 2 Report
All the previous suggestion have been fulfilled except for:
- Include PEDro scale for the quality of the studies
- English review is needed
Author Response
Title: Effects of probiotics supplementation on gastrointestinal symptoms in athletes: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials
Karolina Łagowska: corresponding author
Corresponding author:
Karolina Łagowska ([email protected]),
COMMENTS
Include PEDro scale for the quality of the studies
AUTHOR ANSWER
Thank you for your suggestion
The Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro) scale is a specialized methodological assessment tool for RCT in physiotherapy therefore we decided that in our SRL we used RoB assessment that is dedicated to assess the risk of bias in RCTs both pararell and cross-over. RoB 2 is structured into a fixed set of domains of bias, focusing on different aspects of trial design, conduct, and reporting.
Fitzpatrick RB. PEDro: a physiotherapy evidence database. Med Ref Serv Q. 2008 Summer;27(2):189-98. doi: 10.1080/02763860802114397
Sherrington C, Herbert RD, Maher CG, Moseley AM. PEDro. A database of randomized trials and systematic reviews in physiotherapy. Man Ther. 2000 Nov;5(4):223-6. doi: 10.1054/math.2000.0372.
In last review Reviewers accepted our answer.
COMMENTS
English review is needed
AUTHOR ANSWER
Thank you for your suggestions.
The manuscript has been checked by native speaker. We are attaching a certificate.
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