The Lancet at it again :banghead: The bias here is so obvious :facepalm: Only allow pts into the trial if they confirm to the researchers world...
Exactly how is it possible to state "addressing underlying pathophysiology...." as a first step in pt care when no one knows what that is? Or...
It seems like a mind-boggling expensive way of teaching someone to relax and breathe ;) One session with an OT would be as helpful (for those...
Same old, same old. Absurd. Is there a French ME Association that might wish to becaware if this?
I think you are correct in that it risks normalising making explanations up and rubber stamping this as OK. A much less energetic approach might...
:thumbup: I'd be nothing other than polite ;)
I hope that it all now disappears re ME. I have offered and the boss (Vinny) has asked Janet to follow up next week.
Ha ha my letter to the boss perhaps did the trick.... Just received this Dear Sir/Madam, We recognise that our initial outreach for runners...
"GPs with an extended role spent substantial time actively listening to the participant describe their illness and proposing and negotiating...
"Although we excluded people with organic disease in the design of this trial....." Now there's a claim. Boom. (Apologies it's a Friday...)
I've scanned the paper and they mention fatigue, ibs and fibromyalgia. Cannot see ME/CFS specifically though it might be in there.
This is I think mentioned in the paper "The PHQ-15 has been reported as having an MCID of 2·3 points" Ref 23 23.Toussaint A Kroenke K Baye F...
I have forwarded my two polite, informative emails that I sent to producer Janet Chute on Tuesday and Thursday to the Head of Television at...
BACME have confirmed they are not involved.
Gobsmacking overconfidence. They do not demonstrate in any objective manner that they made a real world difference to anyone. Even the...
Are there any BACME members in this forum.?
"At baseline, PHQ-15 scores were 14·9 (SD 3·0) in the group receiving usual care and 15·0 (2·9) in the group receiving the intervention (figure...
Paper https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)00700-1/fulltext Effectiveness of a symptom-clinic intervention...
Merged thread Commentary re newly published? trial on MUS in the Lancet. Silje Endresen Reme https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(24)01138-3...
I blanked out the presenters mentioned. Janet is I think a producer or similar.
Separate names with a comma.
