People’s Experience of Shared Decision Making in Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy: A Systematic Review and Thematic Synthesis

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Some recommendations are provided as below: 

P2-L67: The ENTREQ acronym should be demonstrated its full compound term (Enhancing Transparency in Reporting the synthesis of Qualitative research) such as COREQ in P3-L118.

P2-L84: The SPIDER acronym should be described much more clear. (eg. S:Studies; E: Exploration, et al).

P2-L85, 87, P3-L94, 96: The first word of a sentence would be capitalized.

P3-L137: The PRISMA acronym should be demonstrated its full compound term (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses).

P4-Figure 1: The initially included 1508 articles were collected from 1490 records through database searching and 17 additional records through citation chaining. 1490+17=1507, Why?

P7-Figure 2: The capitalization of all words in 4 blocks should be consistent.

P10-13: All the references must be re-arranged.

Author Response

Some recommendations are provided as below: 

P2-L67: The ENTREQ acronym should be demonstrated its full compound term (Enhancing Transparency in Reporting the synthesis of Qualitative research) such as COREQ in P3-L118.

JG: This has been updated

P2-L84: The SPIDER acronym should be described much more clear. (eg. S:Studies; E: Exploration, et al).

JG: This has been updated

P2-L85, 87, P3-L94, 96: The first word of a sentence would be capitalized.

JG: This has been updated.

P3-L137: The PRISMA acronym should be demonstrated its full compound term (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses).

This has been updated.

P4-Figure 1: The initially included 1508 articles were collected from 1490 records through database searching and 17 additional records through citation chaining. 1490+17=1507, Why?

JG: The incorrect diagram was used. This has been updated with correct numbers.

P7-Figure 2: The capitalization of all words in 4 blocks should be consistent.

JG: This has been updated

P10-13: All the references must be re-arranged

JG: This has been ammended, all references are in numerical order when they first appear in the text 

Author Response File: Author Response.docx

Reviewer 2 Report

This is a thorough and excellent review of a hard to assess area.

Author Response

Thank you for your positive comments.