Comments about the “Systematic Review: Physical Rehabilitation Therapy for Long COVID-19 Patient with Respiratory Sequelae”

Emna Toulgui; Wafa Benzarti; Helmi Ben Saad

doi:10.3889/oamjms.2022.10847

Authors

Emna Toulgui Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Sahloul Hospital, Sousse, Tunisia
Wafa Benzarti Department of Pneumology, Farhat HACHED Hospital, Sousse, Tunisia
Helmi Ben Saad Research laboratory “Heart failure, LR12SP09”, Hospital Farhat HACHED of Sousse, Faculty of Medicine of Sousse, University of Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2022.10847

Keywords:

SARS-Cov-2, Pulmonary rehabilitation, ICJME, Copyright

Abstract

I read with great interest the systematic review of Prabawa et al. “Physical Rehabilitation Therapy for Long COVID-19 Patient with Respiratory Sequelae: A Systematic Review”. The rational of this systematic review is very interesting, since it discusses the rehabilitation therapy for long coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) syndrome with respiratory sequelae. In COVID-19, physical rehabilitation is a new management axis, and studies related to its impacts on COVID-19 patients’ data are scarce. In their paper, Prabawa et al. have included one Tunisian study (Benzarti W, et al. General practitioners should provide the cardiorespiratory rehabilitation’ ‘minimum advice’ for long COVID-19 patients. Lib J Med. 2022;17(1):2009101) published by the authors of this correspondence. However, three remarks related to the following points were noted: i) Citation of a wrong country of Benzarti et al., ii) Publishing a figure belonging to Benzarti et al. without obtaining the authors’ permission, and iii) Omission to develop a chapter for nutrition rehabilitation. The present Letter to Editor is an appeal for a more rigor when reporting data from previous publications (eg; avoid mistakes related to the country of the first author), and is a remain that permission is needed if some authors want to use a figure created by somebody else.

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