Funding Part of this work was funded by the Berlin Cures GmbH, Germany. The funder provided support in the form of salaries but did not have any...
Given the rapid spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection and the recent implementation of SARS-CoV-2...
Key Points Question Do practitioners understand the probability of common clinical diagnoses? Findings In this survey study of 553...
On today's front page of the Guardian's website, before the Opinions section, this article appears: "Brain fog: how trauma, uncertainty and...
The authors added the study protocol and deviations from the protocol as supplementary material. The protocol states that the project was to run...
And there is a glaring omission in this paragraph: Clinical Global Impression Scale and Adverse Events More patients rated themselves as “much...
The abstract is rather misleading: the clinically minimally important difference for the SF-36-PF score (10 points) is attained by the 16-week...
Oh no, they used the revised recovery criterion from the PACE trial, i.e. a SF-36 physical function score greater than 60... (bolding mine): A...
This negative result seems more insightful than it appears at first glance. The sounder methodology in this study incites us to give it precedence...
While the authors do not discuss this difference, they only used the Fukuda criteria while participants in Nakatomi et al.'s study met both the...
[Trigger warning: death] https://edition.cnn.com/2021/04/10/asia/south-korea-ghost-doctors-plastic-surgery-intl-hnk-dst/index.html This article...
Ernst replied to my comment: “But equally, why are the recommendations of exercise and psychotherapy not being criticized?” In case you’ve missed...
I submitted the following comment to Ernst's blog: There will be many critical responses to NICE’s recommendation of acupuncture, and rightly so:...
The NICE guideline on chronic primary pain (CPP) may provide some insight as to what might happen with the ME/CFS guideline. NICE received a...
The lack of evidence for pharmacological treatments in chronic primary pain, other than for anti-depressants, seems to be a direct consequence of...
Should the title not be reversed? As in: 'On-going physical and respiratory symptoms of "Long Covid" in all adults discharged from hospital and...
And performance bias. Interventions: CBT (training to change pain-related thoughts and behaviors) and MBSR (training in mindfulness meditation...
The highlights and the spin on the results are very deceptive. In no way should peer review and editing have allowed those to be published as...
Sharpe lists support groups as one of the "social factors" that influence recovery -- included are Long Covid Support and ME Action's "Long Covid...
Looking more closely at the conflicts of interests: Author Contributions: J.C.-M., J.A.-M., S.M. and J.L.G.; formal analysis (...) J.C.-M, S.M.,...
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