Usefulness of the Modified Videofluoroscopic Dysphagia Scale in Choosing the Feeding Method for Stroke Patients with Dysphagia
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
I found this a well written article that offers a useful alternative to the VDS.
I found only minor edits - however I am not a biostatistician and therefore have not commented on your statistical analysis.
As a healthcare professional dealing with these patients I found your article very useful.
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Author Response
I found this a well written article that offers a useful alternative to the VDS.
I found only minor edits - however I am not a biostatistician and therefore have not commented on your statistical analysis.
As a healthcare professional dealing with these patients I found your article very useful.
Answer: we appreciate your valuable comment. Following your comment, we have modified a few manuscript. Compared to other clinical scales, normal value of mVDS or VDS are 0 point. Thank you.
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Reviewer 2 Report
The presented article is original, and of interest.
As a suggestion, remove table 1, since I think it is better to make a summary of the scale than to develop it explicitly.
It is an article on dysphagia in stroke patients, it is necessary to add some consequence of the stroke, such as dysphagia, and take into account some other variable of the stroke.
I suggest considering age, with this reference.
https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm9072233
Thank you.
Author Response
Reviewer 2
The presented article is original, and of interest.
As a suggestion, remove table 1, since I think it is better to make a summary of the scale than to develop it explicitly.
It is an article on dysphagia in stroke patients, it is necessary to add some consequence of the stroke, such as dysphagia, and take into account some other variable of the stroke.
I suggest considering age, with this reference.
https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm9072233
Thank you.
Answer:
We appreciate your valuable comment. Following your comment, we have added this reference in our manuscript. And we also remove table 1. We also added the explanation of stroke related variable in the results. Thank you.
