Thanks again for your comments @Michiel Tack : re Indirectness of evidence - does this also relate to the fact that we do not have a direct...
FINE was designed to allow house-bound patients to participate, though it ended up also allowing those who were too healthy to be included in PACE...
Thanks for that. TBH, I didn't think a lot of Tovey's argument were that strong - the whole correspondence gave the impression that no-one...
The new EiC took over from Tovey and decided not only to publish this Larun review, but also to allow more positive claims about exercise therapy...
Pretty irritating to have people speaking at the Science Media Centre about the problems of stigma surrounding CFS. Have they spoken out about...
There certainly seem to be people taking advantage of patients by giving out dubious Lyme diagnoses. "Our treatments and support network [for...
Larun's PhD was on exercise therapy and CFS. We have good reason for not respecting her, but there's a lot of good reasons for believing that we...
Is this something that should be welcomed? Everything we've seen from Cochrane so far indicates that this is likely to lead to more harm.
Those studies were also in the 2014 version of the review, but were new compared to the review before that.
Thanks for all the discussion on this. I remember when I first read about the concept of a 'clinically significant difference'/MID/etc, and it...
And that word will sound better than it is.
If so, that would be a pretty grim sign for the state of Cochrane too. Only when approaching retirement can they consider nearly doing the decent...
"Avoid words that sound worse than they are, e.g. chronic, degenerating, etc." What does this mean? The words are what they are. Do they think...
This is also an indication that the new person is even worse than the last.
The mention of IPD made me wonder about these bits of the new review, seeing as the IPD protocol has been withdrawn:
Given the way Cochrane has acted, why would they assert Cochrane Reviews are "the gold-standard of systematic healthcare research reviews"?...
We probably need to be careful with phrasing on that, as it's disputable to what extent PACE can/can't be considered an RCT. It fails to control...
Just to be clear - this was prespecified as the time for their primary outcome, but there were changes to the primary outcome at that point. If...
I've only skimmed through it, but what a depressing read. They do have to note the lack of evidence for benefit at follow-up, but people Cochrane...
I think that this is the key thing, and a good indication of what they really think about ME/CFS patients.
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