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Summary

  • The initial submission of this article was received on December 17th, 2024 and was peer-reviewed by 2 reviewers and the Academic Editor.
  • The Academic Editor made their initial decision on March 2nd, 2025.
  • The first revision was submitted on March 12th, 2025 and was reviewed by 2 reviewers and the Academic Editor.
  • The article was Accepted by the Academic Editor on March 24th, 2025.

Version 0.2 (accepted)

· Mar 24, 2025 · Academic Editor

Accept

Dear Authors
Thank you for making all the suggested changes
Congratulations!

[# PeerJ Staff Note - this decision was reviewed and approved by Jeremy Loenneke, a PeerJ Section Editor covering this Section #]

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Basic reporting

Thank you for revising the paper appropriately. No additional comments.

Experimental design

Thank you for revising the paper appropriately. No additional comments.

Validity of the findings

Thank you for revising the paper appropriately. No additional comments.

Reviewer 2 ·

Basic reporting

It is correct

Experimental design

It is correct

Validity of the findings

It is correct

Additional comments

The authors have made the changes suggested by the reviewers.

Version 0.1 (original submission)

· Mar 2, 2025 · Academic Editor

Major Revisions

Please respond to the comments from both reviewers. Note: The comments from R2 are mainly in their annotated PDF

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Basic reporting

The core outcomes of the balance scale are BBS and Mini-Balance Evaluation Systems Test (Mini-BESTest). Why don't you emphasize in the introduction why PASS was selected for this study? It is recommended that Mini-BESTest be discussed at the limitations of the study.

It is preferable to describe the participant as "in patients with stroke" rather than "stroke patients"

Experimental design

Add information about the participant's ability to walk at the time of admission. If someone had "Community ambulators" from the time of admission, the results may not be valid.

Internal validation of the cut-off value by the bootstrap method is recommended. This enhances the validity of the results.

It would be nice to have True Positive (FP), True Negative (TN), Falles Positive (FP), and Falles Negative (FN) results when other researchers try to validate your cutoff. It is recommended that you add it.

Please add any information on the severity of the stroke in Table 1.

Validity of the findings

Sufficient information was described.

Reviewer 2 ·

Basic reporting

Some references should be updated

Experimental design

Original primary research within aims and scope of the journal

Validity of the findings

All underlying data have been provided, they are robust, statiscally sound and controlled.

Additional comments

The additional comment to author are as comments in the attached manuscript

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