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

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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.