"From ME Essential - July 2004 MEA calls for PACE trial to be scrapped A number of criticisms concerning the overall value of the PACE trial and...
Itching to do a fisk... ...but I'm not going to.
Just checked. It wasn't really full school attendence at all, although that's how they described it. This is from the paper: [ATTACH] Fatigue was...
FITNET-UK site FAQs says this about the Dutch definition of recovery: Maybe they should modify the definition below the table accordingly:...
I was quite shocked as to how this appears on the Red Whale update site. This is what GPs will see: [ATTACH] When you click on More, you get...
A little. But I think you would quickly find The Lancet siding with the BMJ on this one. (RH really doesn't like the involvement of investigative...
@ukxmrv - I noticed that Lloyd was cited in some of the early papers. This one is cited in Wessely 1989 [ref 18 in the extract below]: Lloyd,...
Which book?
In contrast to Wessely's approach, Dr Ho-Yen (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1371214/) says the following (in 1990): Approaches to...
@JaimeS and @chrisb - I think I've tracked it back a bit further. Wessely et al. (1989) [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1711569/]...
As far as I can tell, Wessely's older papers are entirely theoretical. He cites no practical evidence to back it up. This is what he says in the...
The whole notion that the condition is "perpetuated by deconditioning" makes no sense if you then have to tell patients not to overdo it on their...
While reading the Ciba Foundation Symposium 173 papers (Wiley, 1993), I came across this quote from Peter White in one of the discussions (after...
This is what David McCluskey said about deconditioning in his Ciba paper from 25 years ago: From the discussions after Sharpe's paper, White...
I agree with @Tom Kindlon that CONSORT guidelines are useful, but they don't enable you to assess the quality of trials. They are simply a...
Maybe someone should ask? [ETA: In particular, when, where, which group?]
That's one interpretation, but I don't think even they go quite that far. I think they are willing to accept that the viral infection happened...
Steadily working my way through. I've now reached the chapter by Susan E. Abbey entitled "Somatization, illness attribution and the sociocultural...
Maybe - or they could just like it to let me know it's been seen and noted. Or I could just stop being an impatient pedant......
I've tried to bring it to their attention on the FB page, but I think I must be muted or something (they've liked everyone else's comments except...
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