Author's response to reviews Title:Factors related to functional prognosis in elderly patients after accidental hip fractures. A prospective cohort study. Authors:

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	García, S. De Juan García-Gutierrez, Susana
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	2. The abstract includes terms which remain unclear to the reader, e.g. functional prognosis and treatment period. The term functional prognosis has been changed by functional recovery. Unfortunately I am not able to find the term “treatment period” in the abstract, so I cannot review it. 3. Grouping of variables is also unclear in both abstract and in the methods. In addition to independent (socio-demographic etc variables) and main outcomes (Barthel Index and Lawton IADL Scale) there are other measures done like Health related QoL and Osteoarthritis Index. In order to clarify the studied variables, the paragraph has been rewritten as follows. “The following were studied as independent factors: socio-demographic data (age, sex, instruction level, living condition, received help), characteristics of the fracture, treatment performed, destination at discharge, health-related quality of life (measured with the 12-Item Short Form Health Survey) and hip function (assessed with the short version of the Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index).” 4. Data analysis remains unclear in the abstract. Information about the analysis has been added to the abstract, as requested by the referee. 5. Baseline data collection time needs to be defined in more detail. The authors write that “data was collected at the moment of the fracture”. In order to clarify the data collection time variables, the sentence has been rewritten as follows. “Data were collected in the first week after the fracture occurred and after 6 months of followup.” 6. In the results, multivariate analysis includes variables which are not clearly mentioned in the methods. That has been corrected and those variables included. Introduction 7. Last sentence in the introduction should be deleted or removed into the discussion. The sentence has been deleted
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://static-content.springer.com/openpeerreview/art:10.1186%2F1471-2318-14-124/12877_2014_1068_AuthorComment_V4.pdf
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://static-content.springer.com/openpeerreview/art:10.1186%2F1471-2318-14-124/12877_2014_1068_AuthorComment_V3.pdf
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text