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01-12-2013 | Letter to the editor
Reply to Molassiotis
Authors:
Edzard Ernst, Paul Posadzki
Published in:
Supportive Care in Cancer
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Issue 12/2013
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Excerpt
Molassiotis is the author of about 40 reviews, all of which are prone to the shortcomings he highlights. His statement, “I urge researchers in the field not to proliferate publications of ‘systematic’ reviews of a very small number and of admittedly poor/low quality level trials”, is thus surprising to say the least. The main point of his response seems to be that “systematic reviews of few and low-quality studies do not help anybody”. We feel that such articles can still be useful, for instance, for disclosing important deficits in our current knowledge. …