I don't think they've misunderstood at all. They're playing games.
Jenkins' chapter for the special issue of British Medical Bulletin 1991 issue 4 seems to be a shortened version of her intro to the book. Whole...
I haven't seen the Wessely, Hotopf, Sharpe book, but I agree they have misquoted Jenkins. As you say, she was carefully outlining Acheson's...
I think it looks more like regression to the mean. If they looked at the control group in the same way, they should see exactly the same, although...
Ah - OK. There are two different types of ceiling effect. One could be in the scale itself - as you say, starting at 90 when 100 is the max. But...
It's a certainty if they subgroup the data like that! Those with low scores will tend to improve; those with high scores will tend to get worse...
I'm trying to get my head round why this makes a difference. Surely the difference in the increases between the subgroups is an indication of...
Just to clarify, @Trish, the words in square brackets are mine, to explain what the "issues" were. The previous paragraphs refered to the tendency...
I found his chapter hard to read without feeling very angry and frustrated by what he was proposing. Some things of course may well make sense,...
Re: DoH - I liked this disclaimer... [ATTACH]
OK. I've now had a chance to have a more detailed look at the book: Post-viral fatigue syndrome (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis) - edited by Rachel...
Post has just arrived. Seems I've got the copy that Prof Mowbray gave to St Mary's Hospital med school library!
This post on the ME Association's Facebook page caught my eye this morning. Over the past few days, I've been looking into the history of...
Another book I'd like to get my hands on is the Ciba Foundation Symposium 173 monograph on CFS (1993). I suspect that some of the chapters will be...
You only have to glance at the Eisenberg reference [available here: pdf] to see that's *exactly* what they are doing. "My argument will consist...
Well that's been a very interesting day. All I can say is that they are experts at laying down the tracks and letting everyone else come to their...
Aha - might have guessed I would get closer by looking at Wessely's contribution:
The whole section of that part of the overview is quite revealing: The Eisenberg reference is available here: pdf I wondered whether there was...
Ha! Me too!
OK. I did a search for the 1991 Wessely book chapter, and this 1989 paper came up instead: Wessely S, David A, Butler S, Chalder T. Management of...
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