Responses to the correspondence from McDowell et al.'s on CAM integrative review of health care professionals in New Zealand

Lizhou Liu; Yong Tang; G David Baxter; Haiyan Yin; Steve Tumilty

doi:10.1186/s12906-024-04488-0

Responses to the correspondence from McDowell et al.'s on CAM integrative review of health care professionals in New Zealand

BMC Complement Med Ther. 2024 May 13;24(1):188. doi: 10.1186/s12906-024-04488-0.

Authors

Lizhou Liu^{1

2}, Yong Tang^{3

4

5}, G David Baxter^{6

7

8}, Haiyan Yin^{3

4

5}, Steve Tumilty^{7

9}

Affiliations

¹ Ageing Well National Science Challenge, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. lizhou.liu72@gmail.com.
² China-New Zealand Collaboration Centre for Integrative Medicine (CHINZIM), University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. lizhou.liu72@gmail.com.
³ Acupuncture & Tuina School, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, China.
⁴ China-New Zealand Collaboration Centre for Integrative Medicine (CHINZIM), Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, China.
⁵ Acupuncture & Chronobiology Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu, China.
⁶ Ageing Well National Science Challenge, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
⁷ China-New Zealand Collaboration Centre for Integrative Medicine (CHINZIM), University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
⁸ Graduate Research School, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
⁹ Centre for Health, Activity, and Rehabilitation Research, School of Physiotherapy, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.

Abstract

The authors of the manuscript 'Complementary and alternative medicine - practice, attitudes, and knowledge among healthcare professionals in New Zealand: an integrative review' [1] disagree with the assertion by McDowell et al. that our manuscript has extrapolation errors.

Keywords: Acupuncture; Complementary and alternative medicine; Errors; Extrapolation; New Zealand; Physiotherapy; Response rate; Survey.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Attitude of Health Personnel
Complementary Therapies*
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Health Personnel*
Humans
New Zealand