Whereas they instead cite other trials all exhibiting the same shortcomings.
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I originally posted about this here ......
The blurb of this book is rather interesting: [my bold] Superb confirmation of one of the major biases in PACE etc - that self-reporting of...
I think that meticulous recording of patients' worsening of symptoms following treatment is also vital to include. Lack of this is one of the key...
Well that's a novel cop-out BPS strategy I've not encountered before! Our Cr@p treatment didn't work for your Condition X, which must mean you...
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I'm not sure in this case. You may be right, or it may simply be they are repeating the same mistakes of the past, with this new 'syndrome'.
Heading down the same risky road as happened with ME/CFS. In effect: Given we have no idea what the problem is, we will blindly assume that...
I suspect that subjective biases are heavily influenced by mood, and therefore can be manipulated by managing people's moods. If somebody were to...
Could it be that our sense of pain is actually a composite of two or more sensations? The sense of feel/touch, possibly intense, combined with a...
And indeed abstracting them for us. Our senses such as sight and hearing abstract away any direct awareness of the low level data acquisition,...
As someone who does not have ME/CFS, and has never experienced what you describe (if I'm understanding right), I am finding it really difficult to...
No, I don't think it has ever done that automatically. If you want to be sure that (almost) all the amount you wish to donate goes to the fund,...
Ditto.
My interpretation also. Although I'm not sure if the notion of hysteria was postulated at the time? Or only all those 15 years later?
This seems to be a loaded statement. Why would patients and caregivers be considered separately, and more to the point, how separately?
Yes, measuring instruments influencing measured values is a well known issue, not confined to just medicine.
So the placebo effect to control for is any placebo effect attributable to the treatment. But if the treatment itself includes strong elements of...
Pay day soon.
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