I think in essence ChatGPT is doing an impression. It has been trained on lots of text and basically paraphrases (with no real understanding)....
I've been playing with it and asking about ME research I'm wondering if it is an interesting way to dig into what research has been published,...
I would say the question is less about surveys and more about sampling methods. There is a huge issue if you ask a group of people what treatments...
The SF36 is a terrible tool for measurement in my opinion. (although better than some!). If you look at the questions they do not appear...
I think Trish covered some of the reasons CBT can be bad. But there are others such as someone is put off going to the doctor and other (acute)...
I was thinking in terms of tools that if you have a well specified protocol then you could use the tool to find potential issues (and show how...
And do we need to list the ways it causes harm?
Are review boards needed. Could some tools be applied to perfom a standard checking. I would say that this would need a formal specification of...
Clearly CBT is a universal cure for everything so why have diagnosis. Just convince a patient there is nothing wrong with them and that they can...
Is it an over the counter drug? I had assumed it would need to be perscribed by a doctor.
I think this is a real problem with a lot of reports of benefits of trying different drugs. I also feel there could be a natural bias to reporting...
The number is up to 20 which helps spread the workload considerably. But having a larger number of people allows for views from a larger...
The PAG are currently heavily involved in the UK ME Delivery Plan and this is most of the activity and why more people are needed as its creating...
I think its around an intent to select people with a diverse experience rather than exact population representations (which I don't think there is...
I think it should go back up soon (also to be posted on social media and via AfME). I will post links here as well.
I've been looking at submitting a paper to a journal where the co-author is one of two editors. We have aranged with the editor to have a...
This is a detective story where one of the main characters has ME When the Flood Falls: The Falls Mysteries eBook : Barnard, J.E.: AmazonSmile:...
Its interesting that they have put the speciality under Rhumatology.
I've not read the paper, but I wonder how they got ethics permission to compare setting bones in a cast vs CBT (to persuade people they don't have...
Their methods seem to consist of asking people what they prefer. I would have thought the starting point for outcome measures would be a...
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