The BJGP Editorial Board considered this correspondence recently. The Board endorsed the Journal's peer review process and did not consider that there was a case for retraction of the paper or for releasing the peer reviews. The Board did, however, think that the results of the study were highlighted by the Journal in an overly-positive manner. However, many of the criticisms published above are addressed by the authors themselves in the full paper.
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