# Responses to the correspondence from McDowell et al.’s on CAM integrative review of health care professionals in New Zealand

## TL;DR

The paper responds to claims that an integrative review of CAM practices in New Zealand contains extrapolation errors.

## Contribution

The authors clarify and defend their methodology against criticisms raised by McDowell et al.

## Key findings

- The authors disagree with the assertion of extrapolation errors in their manuscript.
- They provide a detailed rebuttal to the claims made by McDowell et al.

## Abstract

The authors of the manuscript ‘Complementary and alternative medicine - practice, attitudes, and knowledge among healthcare professionals in New Zealand: an integrative review’ [1] disagree with the assertion by McDowell et al. that our manuscript has extrapolation errors.