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Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Practice

ISSN: 2694-0388

Mini Review Open Access
Volume 3 | Issue 1 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.46439/rehabilitation.3.016

Questionable reliability of medical review articles

Olaf R. van Loon1,*, A.J. (Tom) van Loon2
  • 1ZURZACH Care, Early Rehabilitation Department, Hospital Baden, Im Ergel 1, 5400 Baden, Switzerland
  • 2College of Earth Science and Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266590, Shandong, China
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Corresponding Author

Olaf R. van Loon, olaf.vanloon@zurzachcare.ch

Received Date: May 30, 2022

Accepted Date: July 04, 2022

Citation:

van Loon OR, van Loon AJ. Questionable reliability of medical review articles. J Rehabil Res Pract. 2022;3(1):41-44.


Copyright: © 2022 van Loon OR, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Abstract

Review articles are essential for the progress of science. Consequently, they need to be reliable. This is, however, not always the case, as shown by a review article dealing with the application of dry needling to the rehabilitation of patients with spasticity. This example and its follow-up show not only that various types of errors may occur in one single review article, but also that that not all medical authors feel themselves responsible for reliable information. Analysis of medical publications about the COVID-19 pandemic indicates how and why unreliable medical publications may originate. The various possible types of errors and incorrect information in such articles are indicated and discussed, and measures that may help to reduce the number of such errors – thus increasing the reliability of medical articles and particularly review articles – are presented.

Keywords

Review articles, Scientific reliability, Scientific fraud, Editorial responsibility, Peer review, COVID-19 pandemic

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