yes, that sums it up very well.
Actually, the CSI turns out to be a questionnaire designed to assess the severity of CS-related symptoms. In other words, it presumes the symptoms...
I was going to check it out. I assume it's like the "catastrophizing" questionnaires and all the others that presume nothing is wrong with the...
This is my sense as well. My understanding, and I could be wrong, is that there the concept has some credibility in certain kinds of pain but that...
I met up with Atle Fretheim when I was there--and someone else. Both were in positions superior to Larun. I guess that was NIPH?? So it's Cochrane...
what do you mean, Signe Flop's unit was disintegrating?
Glasziou called my initial investigation of PACE an "ad hominem" attack. It was harsh but there was no name-calling. He made a show on Twitter of...
They don't mention this again. hard to know what that means. They do talk about socioeconomic position and demographics, but I'm not sure if...
The question about "germ/virus" also seems unclear. Perhaps some respondents thought they meant "persistent germ/virus." I mean, these were long...
This is the paper cited for the MCID range for the Fatigue Severity Scale: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4937582/ "Three...
which paper? You mean the ONS report?
This report seems to have some spectacularly bad writing: "Monthly employee pay reached a maximum average of £39 in year three for the Asian...
wonderful phrase!
Hi, sorry I didn't post them earlier, as I'd said. After I wrote that, I was asked to wait until they were actually posted publicly.
Are they actually arguing that a 17 pound increase in pay two years after treatment represents success?? And what does this mean exactly: "the...
These weekly news summaries are so invaluable!
I've replaced that version with this one, with an update/correction:...
https://virology.ws/2024/12/23/trial-by-error-cochrane-continues-telling-me-cfs-patients-to-go-f-k-themselves/
I guess more accurate to say that it was designed to save the PACE paradigm. And if I remember, Powell wasn't even a GET study, though it called...
excellent, thanks!
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