Review for 10.1186/s12876-016-0564-7 (2017)

Reviewer ’s report  
 
Title: Dietary treatment of Crohn's Disease: Perceptions of families with children treated by 
exclusive enteral nutrition, a questionnaire survey  
 
Version: 2 Date: 05 Oct 2016  
 
Reviewer: Andrew Day  
 
Reviewer's report:  
 
This work focuses on attitudes of patients (and parents) to the u se of EEN, but also to the 
acceptance of a model solid diet.  
 
Specific Commnets  
1. The Abstract (and later) refers to "an EEN repeat": this should be rephrased to make more 
sense.  
2. Fourty -one would usually be written as Forty -one 
3. In comparing the furt her application of EEN to the use of a hypothetical solid food diet, the 
wording would be very important to avoid bias: it is not clear if this was considered or not. 
For example, line 84/85 and the figure. The current wording on lines 84/85 implies that t he 
authors had pre -decided that EEN is more difficult than a solid food diet and that the question 
was phrased in that way.  
4. The start of the RESULTS section lacks a subheading  
5. Table 2 with the multiple numbers is very confusing. Can this be presented  in a much more 
simple fashion?  
6. The DISCUSSION comments about the results of an assessment in 10 adults. It was unclear 
if this was part of this study (in which case results should be in the results section) or if this 
unpublished data (should be acknow ledged as such) or published data (needs a reference)  
7. Figure 1 does not actually describe what the score is (y axis)  
Are the methods appropriate and well described?  
If not, please specify what is required in your comments to the authors.  
 
Yes 
 
 
Does the work include the necessary controls?  
If not, please specify which controls are required in your comments to the authors.  
 
Unable to assess  
 
Are the conclusions drawn adequate ly supported by the data shown?  
If not, please explain in your comments to the authors.  
 
Yes 
 
Are you able to assess any statistics in the manuscript or would you recommend an  
additional statistical review?  
If an additional statistical review is recommended,  please specify what aspects require further  
assessment in your comments to the editors.  
 
I am able to assess the statistics  
 
Quality of written English  
Please indicate the quality of language in the manuscript:  
 
Needs some language corrections before being published  
 
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