Peer Review of “In-hospital Mortality and the Predictive Ability of the Modified Early Warning Score in Ghana: Single-Center, Retrospective Study”

Authors’ Responses to Peer Reviews of “In-hospital Mortality and the Predictive Ability of the Modified Early Warning Score in Ghana: Single-Center, Retrospective Study” (Preprint)

“…Major Comments 1. Thank you for your suggestion. We have included a power and sample size calculation in the statistical analysis (see above response to Reviewer AK [2]). Typically, patients are discharged in possession of their paper health records (electronic health records are not used, limiting study size), accounting for the smaller number of available records; we clarified this as well.…”

“…Major Comments 1. Thank you; please see the response to reviewer AK [2] as we have now included the power calculation in the Methods section. 2. Thank you for your observation.…”

Authors’ Responses to Peer Reviews of “In-hospital Mortality and the Predictive Ability of the Modified Early Warning Score in Ghana: Single-Center, Retrospective Study”

“…The authors of the manuscript [ 1 ] are grateful to the editor and reviewers [ 2 - 4 ] for their invaluable input and feedback.…”

“…Thank you for your suggestion. We have included a power and sample size calculation in the statistical analysis (see above response to Reviewer AK [ 2 ]). Typically, patients are discharged in possession of their paper health records (electronic health records are not used, limiting study size), accounting for the smaller number of available records; we clarified this as well.…”

“…Thank you; please see the response to reviewer AK [ 2 ] as we have now included the power calculation in the Methods section.…”