It was designed as a diagnositic tool. I don't think they designed it to be biased. But its use as anything other than a diagnostic tool does lead...
In Hilda Bastian's blog, she mentions this review on fatigue scales by Lisa Whitehead:...
It's a good article. One issue for me is the use of the term "consumer". I know this is a Cochrane thing (well, that's me told anyway), but part...
With regard to the Declaration of Helsinki, there is also this bit: Given that one of the explicit aims was to determine the safety of the...
Unfortunately, Guidelines for Good Clinical Practice ≠Legal Requirement
Thanks to @Michiel Tack for making me look at the Protocol again. From this section (in tweet below), I can only presume that no-one has ever...
She was involved in writing the GET manuals for PACE.
I guess that's why the clinics tend to use CBT and GET in combination. I still don't really understand why they didn't do that in PACE. Was it a...
And Ethical Considerations:
Hang on! I'm getting there. There is so much info, I'm doing it a bit at a time... Next bit, trial information:
Yes. It's in the trial protocol - but I've extracted the relevant pages here:
Montgomery quotes from the TSC minutes in the letter, so he has seen the evidence.
It was probably a dream. It wouldn't take 2 years. NICE could issue a treatment alert and stop it in an instant if they wanted to.
Part of the problem is the lack of evidence about the potential risks - but that's because the researchers know that once they go down that road,...
This abstract neatly sums up the role of RECs: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0260691799903490 It seems to be based on the...
I wish they wouldn't hedge like that too. Any treatment that is based on the premise of "unhelpful illness beliefs" or "deconditioning" is not...
Action for ME have responded, as the unnamed "patient group": https://www.actionforme.org.uk/news/health-research-authority-on-the-pace-trial/
Mosaic (Wellcome Trust) seem to be promoting this article again on their Twitter feed for some reason...
Great! Just in time for ME Awareness Month.
I wondered that too. Apparently you can call yourself a Chartered Scientist if you register with the Science Council:...
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