Review Reports

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 (karolina.lagowska@up.poznan.pl),

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.

 

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf