They don't seem to report any between group difference and tests, only within groups? That approach is usually a sign that the results were not...
I assumed nobody would take these results seriously as indicating a real effect but Suzanne Vernon wrote on the Bateman Horne clinic website:...
Yates's correction for continuityQuite a few patients scored a value of 0 at baseline or follow-up which seems weird given that these were the...
The intervention arm included dietary advice and symptom-contingent exercise. They write: "A symptom-titrated pacing strategy was implemented to...
Had a look at the data and the group difference was 0.81 [95% confidence interval: -1.32 to 2.94], with a t-test p-value of 0.449. The cohen d...
'a gradual increase in activity helps people recover.' 'This new research provides evidence for treatments that will help people recover, and is...
It seems to highlight similar problems as ours: Hoping that the editors take notice.
I interpreted the statement as highlighting current problems with ME/CFS case definitions, so more a starting point for discussion than a specific...
The MCAM did test their methods first to check if it correlated with the gold standard of chromium-51 release tested on whole blood on the same...
It also seems that the authors have included multiple estimates from the same study (for example different E:T ratios). I don't think their...
12 out of the 28 studies in the review came from the same research team as the reviewers at Griffith University. There are also 4 from the Klimas...
I don't think these estimates are useful. The authors have thrown 2 case studies with less than 10 participants and no control group in the mix....
[MEDIA] We have written a blog article that summarizes the problems with the BMJ review on Long Covid interventions (Zeraatkar et al. 2024)....
Been looking closer into this. One interpretation might be that including all randomized participants is assuming that those with missing data did...
Intention to treat In the protocol the authors said they were going to use intention-to-treat (ITT): "reviewers will preferentially extract the...
A minus sign I think. the - before the 13.11 got accidentally deleted when I made the table. The estimate is −8.4, 95% confidence interval (CI)...
Here's why I'm asking about precision: the outcomes above that were downgraded twice were non-behavioral interventions with low risk of bias....
Imprecision I think there is an issue with how they evaluated (im)precision and was hoping if anyone could double-check. In short, precision is...
Meta-epidemiological evidence that randomization and allocation concealment overestimate treatment effects is also weak. Take for example this...
GRADE is getting a big update and some parts are already available in this new book: https://book.gradepro.org/ Unfortunately, it includes the...
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