Any method should involve understanding the semantics of a scale in terms of what the questions mean and what the likely distributions are and how...
They do show that Cochrane is morally bankrupt in that their aim is to get something that the reviewers are happy with that doesn't fall to the...
I thought that the MCID was concerned with having a value that must be big enough to improve a patients health rather than just a significant...
I suspect that part of the issues will come with the algorithms used to look at the data. In the context of a lot of data analytics techniques...
One point behind this paper is that for years a response to patient reports of harm with GET and other treatments was the line that it only...
There is an agreement http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/grants_manual/hi/3cpart/h2020-hi-list-ac_en.pdf for certain non eu...
I think he is trying to claim he has acted with good intent and thus shouldn't be blamed for the obvious flaws in his research.
Or maybe because the editor knows the authors? I find it hard to believe someone could read it and think it was worth reading. It doesn't even...
I think this is the key paragraph which basically says it should be enough to treat symptoms and that symptoms may be caused by some undetermined...
Is this simply someone trying to excuse themselves for pushing treatments that don't work and cause harm on a set of patients whilst increasing...
Just their first paragraph They seem to treat disease and 'illness' as entirely different and unrelated things rather than simply having a...
I think that is a gross overstatement. I would say the CFQ sums up a few answers to a random set of questions about how fatigue has changed within...
That amendment doesn't suggest they are bothering with any rigorous review process. I find it hard to see how we can have confidence in anything...
I think one of the arguments to NICE needs to be that all treatments need safety assessments and some form of harms reporting system (not just...
You say it needs to be very up to give symptoms so could increased lactate be an indication of something different happening within the metabolic...
I think they are going to different committees though.
Sometimes it is necessary to review the quality of reviewers.
I don't think it should have influenced anything.
I think making a pool of money available can be a good thing but that doesn't mean giving bad proposals money and I think when other research...
This is one of the issues with treatment as usual controls. The treatment that patients get is very unclear and variable so a comparison is very...
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