Brilliantly put and the last sentence reminds me of @Trish views.
Yea but I think we need indicators of whether interventions work E.g. these indicators (increased hours of employment, return to education ---)...
Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) funded PACE and I think we have to accept that "cost", to the taxpayer, will be part of the appraisal of...
If they actually did a proper study using objective outcome criteria: electronic activity monitoring - actimetry/actigraphy; ability to return...
Think MRI is considered to be more reliable than PET so anything based on MRI seems likely to be more reliable. With PET you basically...
Perhaps I haven't made myself clear, if the Long covid groups (people with Long covid not the APPG on covid) challenge any proposals to fund (Long...
Hi just noticed that there's an APPG on coronavirus* and was thinking that this might be a useful vehicle to put pressure on the Department of...
Here's an extract from @Trish post re Brian Hughes article* "York researchers, commissioned by NICE to review the research evidence on which they...
Hopefully the NICE review - but try to make funding this crap politically unacceptable.
Should be the end of the road for this line of flawed research but that may take some lobbying of Secretary of State for Health and Social Care...
Precisely - any academic who can bring in money is welcome and no doubt held up as a role model for their colleagues --- who gives a s--t if it's...
Yea the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care funds NIHR - The response to this Parliamentary Questions shows the deflection strategy the...
Yea it's cheap s--t --- and it make it look as if the Government is doing something and by manipulating your audience you get them to give you a...
Yea this would strengthen the case to fund the study --- will provide treatment options for XK people --- hopefully, all blown out of the water by...
Can't see how NICE could reasonably depart from the findings that these studies are "low and very low" quality - so they can't be used to promote...
Yea the decision makers aren't the Paul Garner's they're the NIHR & the Minister who funds NIHR [Secretary of State for Health and Social Care]....
I work in a devolved UK administration, at a junior level, on planning policy. I wouldn't like to be recommending funding a "low or very low...
Thank @Sly Saint here's an extract from the study protocol "4.11.3 Primary outcome Our primary outcome will be disability measured using the...
I've only skimmed this but it seems like something you could ask via a freedom of information request. I can't see it being permissible to refuse...
Could you add actimetry i.e. objective measurement of physical activity to this study (I assume the study has commenced)...
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