Effect of Early and Intensive Telephone or Electronic Nutrition Counselling Delivered to People with Upper Gastrointestinal Cancer on Quality of Life: A Three-Arm Randomised Controlled Trial
, Lauren Hanna 1,3, Kate Furness 3,4, Mary Anne Silvers 3, June Savva 3, Helena Frawley 4, Daniel Croagh 5,6, Paul Cashin 5,6, Liang Low 5, Judy Bauer 7, Helen Truby 4,7 and Terry P. Haines 4,8
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Interesting job. I've appreciated the interest about nutrition in patients with upper gastrointestinal cancer. It's worthy observe that not always apps are preferable to other kind of communication. I'd prefer more descriptions about the app used in this study.
Reviewer 2 Report
Immediate acceptance for publication.
This is a solid study that aims to find early nutrition interventions for UGI patients by assessing the effectiveness of using digital devices to get nutritional counseling rather than traditional in-person care. This is also a novel and important study to improve the health of UGI patients potentially. This study is well designed, executed, analyzed, and presented in this manuscript. Surprisingly, the authors found the e-health methods did not improve the QALY or patient’s survival up to a year’s follow-up. I hope this publication would encourage the authors or others to reproduce in different locations (areas/countries) and different associated diseases to understand better the potential usage of digital devices in improving the patient’s health, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.
