The recommendations of GET and CBT were abandoned in the Dutch and Belgian guidelines (respectively 2018 and October 2020). The former caution...
I understand it as: before beginning, all RCTs were registered in a clinical trials database or had published their respective protocols, but I do...
Thank you for linking the article. The translation adds to the confusion as to why patients underwent 2-day CPETs: Gold standard There are some...
It would help to know, before the 2-day CPET, how (or even whether) PEM was assessed, which symptoms of the ME/CFS criteria the participants...
Could this not reflect that the investigators of studies that assessed PEM in patients meeting the Fukuda criteria were more familiar with PEM? If...
Although not for acute or post-surgical pain, NICE's evidence review of non-pharmacological therapies rated nearly all of them as low to very low...
Another terrible article from Cathébras who is pushing for a MUS/FSS approach to long Covid. He directly targets patient associations that he says...
This thread on Twitter quantifies some of the issues raised by the article, notably how the efficacy of psychotherapy interventions can be...
[MEDIA] From Janet Dafoe: Unfortunately, the nano needle is stuck because Rahim [Esfandyarpour] is now an assistant professor at UC Irvine and...
This seems to be the second study on PEM in GWI from this group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; the first one was published in 2019....
Rather than the IDO metabolic trap hypothesis posited by Ron Davis and Robert Phair -- wherein there is an excess of tryptophan that cannot be...
What is going on physiologically, i.e. what is the biological/physiological rooting of the measurements being taken during a CPET.
The two papers indicate that encouragement was standardized, with all patients being asked to push to their maximum. Males (Appendix A): "The...
Recovery Norway and advocates of the Lightning Process have shared similar stories in the press and on social media, but I am not aware that there...
Given that multiple 2-day CPET studies, including those from Visser and van den Campen, have found a reduction in the workload at ventilatory...
Thank you very much for your detailed explanation @Snow Leopard. Are there primers on the basics of the biology needed to understand CPET testing?
Hanna Bergman was directly employed by Karla Soares-Weiser when she was the director of Enhance Reviews Ltd, until the company was dissolved in...
@Hilda Bastian It would be helpful that in their biographies, every member of the author team and the IAG present their current biases on and past...
What comes across as most absurd is that Cochrane (and generally healthcare authorities in recent years) has implemented procedures to prevent...
This may apply to the UK, however the Cochrane review has a significant impact abroad — especially in countries where no official clinical...
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