It's not a randomised controlled trial, so it shouldn't have been included in the first place. The same goes for pretty much every study in the...
Found it! (From Cochrane Handbook v 5.1)
I was going to include a reference to the Cochrane Handbook in my blog (thanks for the kind comments btw!), but changed my mind. In fact, I now...
On a first reading, here's what I took away... To ask the question: "how should the myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) community in the UK address...
This paper provides more info on the randomisation method they used (minimisation): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC556084/ I...
Bingo! TMG #21 (2006-10-12): From TMG #25 (2007-12-11): From TMG #26 (2008-02-13):
The trial authors explained more about their recruitment strategy in the protocol: They mentioned that when previous studies had tried to...
Indeed. But if 'completing an activity diary' forms a large part of your activity for the day, then it becomes part of the problem! [ETA1 - I...
A few of us did quite a bit of research to track down this quote, and managed to get hold of some of the books cited. These posts outline what I...
I have saved copies of all the manuals. All the intervention groups (APT, CBT, GET) kept daily activity diaries, at least for the first 4 weeks....
To me that looks like an infectious disease. Women (even in this enlightened age) are more likely to come into contact with school-age children -...
I worked on this (tidying up the links and uploading, with Bob's help) at the other place: https://phoenixrising.me/stock-photography The file I...
Not sure whether anyone else has noted here [apols if so, but these are the things that stood out for me], but a few limitations I noticed, that...
Thank you!
This must be reference to the paper referenced in this thread? [MEDIA]
He wrote it in a review comment a while ago... Here's Keith aluding to it here... [MEDIA] [I'll edit this post when I find the relevant...
The Lever et al (1988) reference is this letter to The Lancet (if anyone has access). The text in the book goes on to summarise this study...
I've had a look through the Jenkins book on PVFS and found a whole chapter on Interferon, which the authors of the recent study seem to have...
Measuring *increased* fatigue is actually something the CFQ should be quite good at, ironically.
Yes, that's where the quote that @Barry and I quoted originally came from (posts #364 and #397).
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