Hi. News on my request that Cochrane withdraw the 2008 CBT for CFS review which states that CBT is effective....
This hits the nail on the head. One of the responses I got to my complaint about the Exercise review was that Cochrane has a "duty of care" to...
Agree 100%
Yeah - the big disappointment for me (another hero bites the dust) was him co-authoring a network meta-analysis on anti-depressants...
This. (and by the way @rvallee you are my current top hero. Don't let me down, I couldn't take the disappointment - no pressure). The whole...
It could be converted to the Cochrane format easily enough if Vink & Vink-Niese agreed to put their text data and analyses into the Review Manager...
I communicated over and over with any individual I thought might listen to me in Cochrane about the problems with the Exercise review when I...
yes, the use of the word "bust" worried me slightly...although I am not an expert by any means. He is definitely in contact with Hilda Bastian...
https://community.cochrane.org/news/cochrane-forms-new-research-integrity-team. Lisa Bero, Senior Research Integrity Editor, says, “For decades,...
Further to this comment about the scope of the review, I noticed a paragraph in the CBT review referring to a programme of reviews on CFS, which...
The old review got a high risk of bias for outcomes assessment because of the lack of blinding (see pdf attached). I *think* the new risk of bias...
Sure. But a systematic review is not the same as a critical appraisal (assessment) of individual trials. It is a way of synthesizing relevant...
I absolutely agree. No I don't think it is done, but I'm not 100% sure. All I know is the new risk of bias tool assesses individual outcomes...
You could definitely consider PACE for inclusion in the review and then exclude it because the participants don't meet the diagnostic criteria of...
Another issue which Hilda mentioned in her blog about protocols was the mandatory section on "How the intervention might work". This is one of...
Perfect Trish -thank you! I was thinking yesterday about the diagnostic criteria issue which has got a bit lost in all the discussion on...
I agree.
I agree. The only (possible) ethical trial on GET now would be a withdrawal trial. Ie. randomly allocating patients to either carry on with GET...
Yes! "...give priority to questions where there are known to be studies needing review" This is exactly my point. Who are these people who...
Precisely. Cochrane is the only organisation that does (occasionally) publish empty reviews. But currently they seem to view these as something...
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