TY - JOUR T1 - Correspondence in relation to critical appraisal by Chapman <em>et al</em> JF - Thorax JO - Thorax SP - 86 LP - 86 DO - 10.1136/thx.2010.149633 VL - 66 IS - 1 AU - Matthew J Peters AU - Christine R Jenkins Y1 - 2011/01/01 UR - http://thorax.bmj.com/content/66/1/86.1.abstract N2 - We write to raise some of a number of serious concerns about the recent paper ‘Single maintenance and reliever therapy (SMART) of asthma: a critical appraisal’.1 We believe that it is written in a misleading fashion and contains important errors of fact, presentation and inference.Tabulated data for symptoms, reliever use and exacerbations are presented only for patients randomly assigned to SMART. The lead author had access to the analysis by Bateman et al2 that included full comparative data, as he wrote an accompanying editorial3 and cited it in the … ER -