Another potentially relevant paper from 2010: This descriptive population study of 307 public high school students, ages 15 to 17 years. . ....
I've found an earlier reference than the 2011 consensus statement for the use of a 30 bpm threshold: this 1999 follow-up paper by Low et al....
I actually haven't come across a paper that tries to assess pre-test apprehension in head-up tilt, although while searching yesterday I found a...
This paper (link) may also be of interest: Also, of some potential interest given the use of POTS criteria in paediatric populations - from a...
The original criterion in the 1993 Schondorf-Low paper was 2SD above the mean for a sex-matched control population which excluded children and...
That's a very interesting study. Very quick skim: Reasonable sample size (n=252). ΔHR regressed significantly with age in females but not males;...
If I remember correctly, a doctor who is facing fitness to practice proceedings or who is not in good standing cannot just relinquish (I think so...
The website itself is full of all kinds of misconceptions and pseudoscience and drivel, e.g: and: .. and that's just from one randomly-selected...
This reference is to Nimnuan et al. Medically unexplained symptoms: an epidemiological study in seven specialties; I had a brief skim of this...
Here's a PDF for the Toussaint et al paper: link - the SEM was 2.3 for the PHQ-15m. The adjusted between-group difference was -1.82 (95% CI –2.67...
I was just skimming through this issue of the Lancet, and in addition to the Reme commentary there's also an editorial ("Taking persistent...
The "search strategies" document from the history of the NICE guideline may be of use:...
Some quotes from from a post to Agle's mailing list with details of the PI:
I edited my post just about a minute before you replied, Trish, but I meant insofar as she's able to directly affect the lives of patients - I was...
Also if you retain your licence you also have to engage in the regular appraisals and 5-year revalidations that were introduced just over a decade...
Problems with HADS have been discussed on S4ME before; I did notice, though, that they're using a different scale for children: This one...
The times that I've used the services of private specialists, it hasn't been about managing the core features of ME. I've needed help mainly with...
I've pulled a copy of the old article from my browser's cache. Here's the diff: That is a welcome change as many desperate pwLC might be tempted...
The article does a really good job of presenting how an ordinary family's life can be overturned by all of this, how intransigent bureaucracies...
I suspect the majority of patients will just assume that a private specialist will be better informed, more qualified and less time-poor than the...
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