As time has gone on and I've learnt a little bit more about some of the people on the author team and the IAG (and thought about some of the other...
More information about the agreement between cochrane and NICE can be found here:...
By my reading of this correspondence, this makes the previous cochrane review extremely misleading. The reason they chose not to downgrade for...
I think the justification for using the longest followups possible from NICE was that that's what people are actually interested in. I agree with...
The committee play a large role in development of the review questions and the protocol though
The systematic evidence review part (ie. the GRADE ratings) of the guideline could be done by people without any involvement in the treatment of...
I didn't have particularly high expectations, but the comments from the Royal Colleges are worse than I expected. So many errors, so much...
It's probably a reference to an ANA test, which can have a pretty high false positive rate:...
Busse's rapid response in the BMJ had a number of pretty significant basic errors in it (claiming there was no GRADE evidence summary of findings...
It's a bit confusing, but there's essentially two different scales going on. There's the different domains for determining the level of the risk...
This is from 2016, not recent
As far as I'm aware there isn't good evidence PoTS can be worsened by deconditioning.
I personally think it's very plausible people with ME are more sensitive to pain than healthy controls, although I wouldn't necessarily trust a...
The context of the article is whether Long Covid is psychosomatic or anxiety or depression. The quote about anxiety and depression is preceded by...
I don't really see how this is a barb. She's just stating what the evidence is
I think their use of the term endophenotype is ridiculous. They ran a study that pretty much found that patients with CFS and FM are more...
"endophenotype"
Strange that he felt the need to do an Op-Ed in the British Journal of General Practice making claims about the etiology and treatment of ME when...
All the studies in this review are retrospective studies, and all of them recruited their patient from specialist epilepsy clinics. They note in...
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