My following comment very tentative, but ... The general trend for weighting in the top-right quadrant: This suggests people who did achieve more...
I can sort of see some logic in this. The Borg score alone is very nebulous, being simply a person's self-rated perception of how hard they found...
Endorsed by who? Therapists? Patients? ME patients?
I only looked at @Lucibee's post very quickly and may have jumped the gun. Is it that lower Borg scores do correspond with improvements?
Are we sure a higher Borg score necessarily corresponds to an improvement? If I climb a set of steps today and it it feels like the effort it took...
Yes, they ignored it ... because it did not agree with the findings from subjective outcomes.
For pwME any lack of medicines they are taking for some other condition has the potential to also impact their ME.
[My bold] That sounds very true. Echoes of @RDP's perfect storm comment, with the notion of a final straw at some point.
Except of course they did not do this after formally analyzing the data.
I'm normally pretty understanding of the dilemmas front line medics face, but I must say it feels like this paramedic should at the very least be...
Exactly. I find it highly implausible the investigators wouldn't have been sounding out opinions and impressions from the therapists during the...
I'm never convinced by the implications they give regarding this. Surely there must have been a wealth of tea-room chats and so forth where they...
A further question therefore being: What's the difference?
@dave30th (I think it was David) in one of his fairly recent blogs made clear that given everything was unblinded, the formal analysis is a...
That seems a very fair point to me. @dave30th, @Jonathan Edwards?
Michael Sharpe (and probably others) sometime try to use as a defence that PACE only claimed to trial people with CFS, not ME. The 2007 PACE...
I wonder.
Many of us might think they should do anyway ;).
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