And I think there's another one: 14 males (vs 13/13 in Table 1). The final study sample included 54 participants (27 participants with PCC and 27...
Very interesting. Don't think potential confounding can be ruled out - PCC patients had higher resting HR & respiratory rates than controls (87...
I'm absolutely not doubting anyone's symptoms, and I understand why people have become attached to the diagnosis, but most people with a serious...
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Abstract: This article conveys how taking patient knowledge seriously can improve patient experience and further medical science. In clinical...
And if 7/12 had 0 hours per week and one patient reported 40 hours at worst - given the skew shouldn't a non-parametric test or log transform be...
A few more thoughts: * Of the 12 contactable, all agreed to be interviewed. Such an agreement rate is unusual in research. And by the time of...
"Validation of L-type calcium channel blocker amlodipine as a novel ADHD treatment through cross-species analysis, drug-target Mendelian...
Huh. "Audit or research?" - Arroll as one of the two authors (NZ Med J 2001; 114: 499-500-2) (p20+ of the PDF):...
One more point. From NG206: I think one could make a good argument based on that that even in the case where it was definitively audit and not...
I have no New Zealand specific knowledge, and my own knowledge of ethics in academia is now quite dated and was never extensive to begin with....
If you're taking a psychostimulant, have you considered that the different supplements & foods may be affecting the pharmacokinetics/metabolism of...
The other aspect of this (which I don't think is discussed in the paper) is that LP quacktitioners themselves are apparently sometimes selective...
"8/12" - thought it was 8/20? "5 of the 11 followed up patients fully recovered" - thought it was 5/12?
Huh. Because this reads to me more as an observational case series than an audit of clinical practice.
Had a very brief look. Retrospective self-report, tiny cohort (n=12), no control group. Non-validated instruments? - no discussion of how they...
It is true that NG206 essentially specifies certain therapist roles (s1.11.8 "Refer people ME/CFS to a physiotherapist or occupational therapist...
In "Epidemiological characteristics of chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis in Australian patients" (Clin. Epidemiol....
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He realised that quantisation introduced an irreducible probabilistic element, but he didn't accept fundamental randomness as the last word (as...
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