Bearing in mind the grades were all self-reported anyway, and therefore liable to be pretty slack, it may be that as awareness began to dawn of...
That in itself will be a good insight into their mindset and approach toward good scientific process.
I think there is an unavoidable element of brinkmanship in good pacing.
Thanks Graham, that's a great explanation. As I was reading about sieves and patients my brain sort of cut out the middleman, and I found myself...
This is what I was thinking of: https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg53/documents/surveillance-review-proposal It includes: In fairness though...
Maybe, but I thought it cropped up regarding how they researched for the existing guideline. Confess I can't find it but I'll try digging a bit...
It must depend surely on what importance each component has to the overall result, and how each contributes to it. The authors clearly presume...
Quite some time back there was something regarding development of the current 2007 CFS/ME NICE guidelines, where it was acknowledged that only the...
Ahh, but it's all about doing those incredibly helpful graded exercises, and thinking much more positively about her illness, that helps a...
I suspect a lot of modern 'journalists' are just poor imitations of the real thing, doing low cost, low effort, low integrity web search and...
I suspect 'fatigue' probably has many different incarnations, despite being referred to by a single word.
Really good that such a book exists. I suspect there is a real skill to good pacing, which will come naturally to some and less so for others. I...
That will depend very much on prevailing public opinion at the time, and what they think they could get away with ... or not.
Some emotions are well proven to correlate with certain physical effects: sweating from fear/anxiety; needing the loo if terrified; blushing if...
Deep depression can have significant fatigue as a self-reported symptom (I know this from a close family member long time back), but that is a...
And as I've previously said somewhere, the stress of being discounted by the medical profession and society in general, will also take its toll....
I assumed the analogy was about hardware-control software, rather than about software somehow magically modifying the hardware itself. I've...
If I say to someone who has just exchanged contracts for their house, "you've burnt your boats now", I think we all know I'm not being literal. An...
I'm also a software developer, and I do find the waters a bit muddy here. Yes it is all hardware in the end, but begs the question: why call...
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