I think that is what I am getting at but they could have just used a guess.
I have the impression that this group have hyped up tests before when they were on small samples. But perhaps this is a repeat of the same hype.
But there is a principle that you look at techniques and make an assessment about whether they are likely to work and hence worth testing. LP is...
A question: We have seen a number of small scale studies over the years looking for biomarkers including immune system studies and brain scans....
One of the things I was wondering about were the power calculations and whether they were redone between the feasibility and full trial as this...
It could be true. In that the NIHR (National health research) may have funded some since I think Crawley has a research fellowship with them which...
I think there is a further issue which is that the LP needs to be fully described in the paper in terms of whether it encourages symptom denial....
Because people notice if software doesn't work whereas with trials there is obvious way to see the results are spun. Whats more is many companies...
I think it was funded by a couple of charities funded at least the feasibility study - but then the full trial was just an extension of that. I...
But they were happy to put their reputations on the line without bothering to find out the details.
We should remember that Dorthy Bishop has for using her reputation to back PACE. She wrote this article basically lumping patients asking for PACE...
I do wonder if a complaint could be made about the PACE entry into the REF process. They claimed great success and influence and their long term...
Psychological Medicine who published the PACE recovery paper aren't members of COPE
I think that we hear of those who are very ill here but there will be a range of different levels of disability.
@The UK ME/CFS Biobank Thankyou for answering questions
How do you find patients. Could we help? Are there questionnaires that are used to select people This question was asked on twitter relating to...
Are all the samples from the UK? Do you think there may be differences in different countries and hence should the Biobank be replicated else...
Are you in touch with the three NIH ME research centers that were anounced and do you share experience of good sample/data collection and schema...
As data starts to be collected from various studies on the Biobank data would it be possible to create anonymous datasets that could be shared...
I believe you are doing home collection of blood samples. Does that mean that you are getting collections from severe patients? Also as you...
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