Correlation of palpable carotid, femoral and radial pulses with systolic blood pressure

CD Deakin

Author's response to reviewer's and statistician's reports


Further to your letter of 14 January 2000, please find enclosed the revised manuscript. In answer to your specific points:

  1. We have included "observational study" in the title as requested.
  2. The first sentence of the comment now contains the main message of the paper.
  3. CDD designed the study, collected the data and wrote the manuscript. JLL gave advice about the study design, analysed the data and helped in the revision of the manuscript.
  4. Our replies to the statistical review are given below:
i) Sample size is clarified in the text. Sequential patients were collected over a three year period.
ii) The term 'correlation' is no longer used.
iii) CDD has spoken twice to Julie Morris regarding her statistical comments. She has agreed that a reference range for the data would be appropriate and we have calculated these values. We have changed the original graph to a dot-plot graph which Julie Morris agreed would also be more appropriate. The manuscript has now been revised according to her wishes and agreement.
iv) Table 1 has been omitted. I hope the revised manuscript is satisfactory and we look forward to hearing from you in due course.

Yours sincerely,

Dr Charles D. Deakin MA MD MRCP FRCA