Beautifully done! Please add my name to the list. Graham McPhee: ME patient, active in challenging poor quality studies on ME. Of course, if...
Thanks for your good wishes, but it's just a temporary phase while I'm cutting back on the steroids. Once I return to my usual dose I'll be back...
As I understand it, (mind goes blank while searching for a name that I should know) the researcher, my age, with a son severely affected, has...
I've got very behind with these threads, but the reason may be of interest here. I went down with ME in 1999, but in 2005 went down with...
Which is why correcting just the sf-36 recovery target has such a big effect.
A real one. I'd like to compare something that genuinely uses a number of criteria to measure success. You might be interested to hear that I...
Does anyone have any suggestions of a totally different "medical" study where three or four criteria were used to determine recovery, or some...
Thank you, but you do realize that after a year of being in my class your brain would have been warped forever.
Don't forget that they actually loosened all four sieves. It might be that they found that all four of them were too restrictive. I think I would...
I always reckon I'm lucky to get the first letter right. Please accept my apologies Annie, and my congratulations to Alice. (and no, it isn't the...
Very impressive video, Andy. Succinct and precise.
The line about recovery having multiple dimensions has a certain lack of logic to it. The point is that all four criteria have to be matched. If...
I'm late to the party again, and I'll probably be going home early to bed. Wet blanket, that's me. But to me the article just underlines the...
From what I can see over here in the UK, specialists do not use any specific criteria (or if they do, they don't say so), but simply tell a...
Agreed. I think I was looking at it more from the kind of reaction we would get if we did it. If we could get someone more detached from the...
It amazes me that clinics don't seem to think enough about this problem. As far as a "follow-up" is concerned, the problem is that there are lots...
The MRC did set up a committee in response to the 2002 Chief Medical Officer report, re-formed it and re-named it after the Gibson Report of 2006...
Effectively, the only time the MRC has funded biomedical research was then (and it funded one follow-up study), and that was in response to an...
I first started reading research articles on ME/CFS back in 2009 or so, and one of the first ones I came across was a series of similar...
The problem is that I'm not an academic: I'm an ex-maths teacher. So when I read through these booklets, their overall tone and style have as much...
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