Review Interventions for the management of long covid post-covid condition: living systematic review, 2024, Zeraatkar, Flottorp, Garner, Busse+

[Utsikt]

If I were an editor there, I would be mortified that they allowed a review to make the exact same error that they have already corrected in the source material.

It’s like having an ambulance drive right past a car crash because someone hasn’t called 911 about it.

 

[Robert 1973]

https://virology.ws/2025/03/28/tria...ystematic-review-of-long-covid-interventions/

Thanks, Dave. Your letter ends:

In a related matter, the peer reviews for the review have not yet been posted. Policy at The BMJ is to post them within five days. As far as I know, no reason for this lapse has been offered. Does The BMJ plan to post the peer reviews? If so, when? And if not, why not? This lapse undermines the claim that “The BMJ has fully open peer review.”

My Rapid Response, submitted in December, highlighting the absence of any peer review documents was never published, so I’m pleased you are chasing this up.

I’ve submitted a brief Rapid Response highlighting the absence of any peer review documents and asking for that to be rectified.

 

[Kitty]

“The BMJ has fully open peer review.”

Maybe peer reviewers found the lineup of authors called to mind the theme tune of The Muppet Show, and didn't bother?

 

[dave30th]

My Rapid Response, submitted in December, highlighting the absence of any peer review documents was never published, so I’m pleased you are chasing this up.

Another reason why the request that I should submit a rapid review in order to trigger responses--from the authors and from the journal--doesn't wash.

 

[dave30th]

Another reason why the request that I should submit a rapid review in order to trigger responses--from the authors and from the journal--doesn't wash.

My only concern, in re-reading the passage at the end of my letter, is that I used the word "lapse" twice so close together without realizing it. Bummer! Bad style choice!!! When I read it now, it makes me cringe!!

 

[Hutan]

We have moved posts about a paper that criticises the review to a thread dedicated to that paper:

Are [CBT] and a group physical and mental health rehabilitation programme effective treatments for long COVID?... 2025, Vink and Vink-Niese