Research utilising standardised outcomes DESIGNED BY patients may indeed advance the field by eliminating all of the treatments that don't work....
Has anyone trialled a "give money to patients" study. Basically, whatever money they'd spend on therapists handed directly to patients? :D
I had similar symptoms from late March last year, my labyrinthitis took about 6 months to recover, I still have some ear blockage issues. It also...
Yet this is simply contradicted in the next paragraph: If it isn't physical, then what is it? It's so disappointing that the people who...
I know someone with ME who suffered from encephalitis after a bacterial infection that came from the lab they worked in...
GBS is characterised by severe paresis/paralysis that starts in the extremities, typically the legs, though sometimes the arms. Occasionally there...
A shorter-term study (median 6 year followup) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1468-1331.2008.02311.x
Abstract Introduction: Reports regarding outcome of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) are usually limited to relatively short follow-up. We assessed...
The true believers in the "powerful placebo effect" have no problem with magical healing crystals, though some feel that mainstream medicine...
Recovery of deleted deep sequencing data sheds more light on the early Wuhan SARS-CoV-2 epidemic...
They forgot the *magic happens here* bit.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9712333/Four-Brits-develop-Guillain-Barr-syndrome-just-days-having-AstraZenecas-Covid-jab.html...
They're not saying patients never suffer from PEM, they're saying that some patients just happened to be suffering PEM (for whatever reason)...
The SARS outbreak in Hong Kong started in February 2003 and they discovered a link to palm civets in May 2003, so claiming it took 10 years is...
All of the potential measures are of low quality. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejp.1670
I disagree that it is the primary bias, though it is certainly one of the possible biases. "Expectancy" is often discussed as a mechanism for...
My personal preferred term is "randomised comparison trial", rather than "randomised controlled trial"...
I'm not sure how this paper is relevant to trials of CBT/GET, such as the PACE trial. The problem isn't "expectation"/expectancy effects. Indeed,...
Not serious shortcomings, no. Checking whether there was differential bias between the clinicians is possible, but this is not the same as being...
Sounds like what is wrong with traffic engineering. No other engineering profession would tolerate such high rates of injury and mortality...
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