I'm not even sure that they didn't use an unpublished criteria called the London criteria in the PACE trial. We really need some input from PACE...
In their letter, Peter White et al state: “The PACE trial paper refers to chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) which is operationally defined; it does...
@Jonathan Edwards I really think its a risky strategy not to point out how bias the Oxford criteria can be because if as to date so called high...
So if you were in the BPS crew and had two doors one for entry to your studies marked "fatigue door" and one for no entry how many people would...
Nooooooo!!!!! Oxford is designed to attempt to capture non neurological non immune symptom based patients and maximise potential for tired...
@Jonathan Edwards Do you think that the Oxford criteria has a better potential to pickup up people who fit multiple criterias or a small subset...
If you feel better on the 16th day then you had Major Depressive Disorder for one day.
But the use of the Oxford criteria by the BPS crowd in trials is not to be inclusive of all criterias by using Oxford its being used as a...
Or it may stink because its not legitimate.
The point is that the BPS and PACE crowd do not "cast a wide net" therefore potentially catching multiple groups of a syndrome, they instead...
Earlier you posted on the "phenomenon" as you descried it wherby people would be convinced they had RA when they simply didn't met the criteria,...
Would you drink London tap water based on a study on UK wide water that only tested water from the Scottish Highlands?
The difference is that the PACE group were commissioned with government money to study a syndrome not a selective group within a syndrome that...
Sorry I don't agree with this simply because the results ARE being imposed as a treatment on a separate patient group, namely non Oxford "ME/CFS"....
Even with this how can they possibly help you, you are the one using your body surely its common sense how to manage your own body not a rolled...
That makes his latest speil even funnier. "Ok then ignore that trial I was involved with if you don't like it I'll just tell you all the facts...
"No one ever comes back to this restaurant cos I feed them so well the first time".
It also misses the point that as anecdotal reporting, whilst only using one treatment and no control group, it shows that 3 groups just produced...
Crap restaurants wouldn't be assured if they were getting less complaints but their tables were empty.
I'm not sure if he even understands the difference between, "thinking about prognosis in thirds", and splitting prognosis into three groups. He...
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