Prohealth Physiotherapy, 124 Kelvin St, Invercargill, New Zealand.
School of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand.
BMC Complement Med Ther. 2024 May 13;24(1):187. doi: 10.1186/s12906-023-04259-3.
This letter is to highlight errors made by Liu et al. in their 2020 paper in BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies, "Complementary and alternative medicine-practice, attitudes, and knowledge among healthcare professionals in New Zealand: an integrative review". Substantial errors in their citation of the recent research and methodology by McDowell, Kohut & Betts (2019) pertaining to the practice of acupuncture in New Zealand by physiotherapists are presented. The actual results of McDowell et al.'s work and the true state of acupuncture use by their sample group is reported.
这封信旨在强调 Liu 等人在他们 2020 年发表在 BMC 补充医学与疗法杂志上的论文中的错误,该论文题为“新西兰医疗保健专业人员对补充和替代医学的实践、态度和知识:综合评价”。他们在引用 McDowell、Kohut 和 Betts(2019 年)最近的研究和方法时犯了重大错误,这些研究和方法涉及新西兰物理治疗师的针灸实践。本文报告了 McDowell 等人的实际研究结果以及他们的样本组中针灸的真实使用情况。