Reply to the letter to the editor: ‘Systematic review of comparative effectiveness and health economics research relating to osteopathic manipulative treatment’

We would like to thank Licciardone for his comments on our article (Steel et al., 2017). The ongoing contribution of researchers such as Licciardone to the field of osteopathy is of utmost importance. The cost-effectiveness study reported by Licciardone was published and indexed after our research database search was conducted (May 2015). While we did conduct hand-searching of included articles in September 2015 to identify any citations overlooked during the database search, as per standard practice we did not repeat the electronic database search at this time.

Source: Manual Therapy - February 1, 2017 Category: Physiotherapy Authors: Amie Steel, Tobias Sundberg, Rebecca Reid, Lesley Ward, Felicity L. Bishop, Matthew Leach, Holger Cramer, Jon Wardle, Jon Adams Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research