Author’s response to reviews Title: Predictors of the effects of treatment for shoulder pain: Protocol of an individual participant data meta-analysis Authors: Danielle van der Windt (d.van.der.windt@keele.ac.uk) Danielle Burke (d.burke@keele.ac.uk) Opeyemi Babatunde (o.babatunde@keele.ac.uk) Miriam Hattle (m.s.hattle@keele.ac.uk) Cliona McRobert (Cliona.mcrobert@liverpool.ac.uk) Chris Littlewood (c.littlewood@keele.ac.uk) Gwenllian Wynne-Jones (g.wynne-jones@keele.ac.uk) Linda Chesterton (l.chesterton1@gmail.com) Geert van der Heijden (geert.vander.heijden@acta.nl) Jan Winters (j.c.winters@umcg.nl) Daniel Rhon (daniel.i.rhon.ctr@mail.mil) Kim Bennell (k.bennell@unimelb.edu.au) Edward Roddy (e.roddy@keele.ac.uk) Carl Heneghan (carl.heneghan@phc.ox.ac.uk) David Beard (david.beard@ndorms.ox.ac.uk) Jonathan Rees (jonathan.rees@ndorms.ox.ac.uk) Richard Riley (r.riley@keele.ac.uk) Version: 1 Date: 29 Mar 2019 Author’s response to reviews: DAPR-D-19-00003