This was in the Protocol: ETA: Date of approval was 31 Mar 2003 according to http://www.isrctn.com/ISRCTN54285094
Fair enough. However, their actual results (per protocol) fell a long way short of the assumptions for the trial:
Interesting that Hotopf's review abstract makes the point that this is improvement *without* any systematic intervention, so to find such a poor...
Thanks @Tom Kindlon . I had misremembered. It was improvement they looked at. The results are somewhat affected by their definition of...
Interesting that the top 2 items under "Latest news" have lost their links now... I seem to remember that analysis getting pretty similar...
Thanks! Nearly 600 pages of general comments! Wow! https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg53/documents/general-table-of-comments2
Are these comments still available on the NICE website somewhere?
I guess it's all in the comparison. Psych trialists want the comparison to be as big as possible to maximise the effect they see. But from a RCT...
@Barry I would agree with most of that, but psychological treatments should not be given a free pass on this one. RCTs could be better designed...
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@JaimeS - I don't think you can sum the deltas like that. Those categories are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
Percentages, I think.
Well if she does insist on blocking the "new kids", we won't ever be able to listen!
Oh good. At least they got your informed consent to participate then... :facepalm:
If you knew which arm you were in, it wasn't properly blinded.
I'm wondering if anyone has systematically tracked the trail of misinformation that the likes of Wessely, White, Sharpe, Manu etc have left in...
Wessely planted his 'get-out clause' on this nearly 20 years ago: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10616232 [It's #107 in the Wessely files,...
There were so many problems with the original protocol anyway, I'm really not sure it makes much difference. We sometimes get a bit obsessed that...
Arguably that could create more bias, not less. CGI and attendance, although filled in on anonymised forms, was recorded by the therapist - they...
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