Reviewer’ s report
Title: Burden of pelvic organ prolapse in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Version: 0Date: 20 Feb 2020
Reviewer: Safdar Ali
Reviewer's report:
Title:
Burden of pelvic organ prolapse in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.The manuscript entitled "Burden of pelvic organ prolapse in Ethiopia: a systematic review andmeta-analysis" deals with the Prevalence of POP, and its impact on the quality of women's life.The study is interesting and should be acknowledged. The authors have raised the current issue oftheir locality.Comments:In my opinion, the authors have tried their best, and the work carried out is satisfactory. However,writing language and style need to be improved. I suggest a native speaker, to correct manuscriptstyling and language. The MS should be only accepted for publication after some minor revisions,as given below:1.The introduction of MS should be revised and repetitions need to be omitted.2.The authors should include some more comparative study examples of POP in the Introduction.3.Searching strategyother gray literatures change to ………… literature
Searching terms was used change to searching terms were usedpelvic floor disorders OR pelvic organ prolapse OR utero-vaginal prolapse OR vault prolapse OR
rectocele OR cystocele AND Ethiopia and related terms: why you use OR? You can put a comma
(,) symbol in between the words.4.Inclusion and exclusion criteria: Rearrange the sentence and avoid the reputations.5.Quality assessment: Rearrange the sentence structure and omit the grammar mistakes.6.Data analysis"STATA version 11 statistical software was used. Forest plot format was used to present thepooled point prevalence with 95%Cl. For associations, a log odds ratio was used to declare theassociation between associated factors and pelvic organ prolapse". Rearrange the sentencestructures, improve the writing skills.7.Fig.1: Improve the quality of the figure, all lines should be straight.8.Subgroup analysis (results section): This section needs to be rearranged. Please avoid therepetitions.9.Women who were rural residents (AOR = 3.56; 95% CI: 1.46- 8.65), I2=94.3%, P 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.
YesAre the conclusions drawn adequately supported by the data shown?
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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 furtherassessment in your comments to the editors.
I am able to assess the statisticsQuality of written English
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