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RT magazine editorial quotes Foundation release
“Design Flaw” is the title of an editorial in the August, 2010 isue of RT: For Decision Makers in Respiratory Care about a controversial Cochrane Library review of Alpha-1 augmentation therapy and the Alpha-1 Foundation’s response.
The Cochrane review claimed that augmentation therapy should not be recommended. The Foundation responded that the review was flawed in its methodology and quoted several Alpha-1 experts in support of the criticism.
RT quotes the Foundation press release and also Gerard Turino, MD, founding director of the James P. Mara Center for Lung Diseases in New York.
In a message for respiratory therapists, Turino said, “It’s important to make a balanced analysis of therapies. If you limit what you evaluate, you can come to a conclusion that doesn’t reflect what’s known and what should be done,” adding, “don’t be taken in by this study.”
