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  1. ME/CFS Skeptic
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    Medical Research Future Fund win for Emerge Australia : Epidemiology and Health Economic Impacts of ME/CFS - Anchor Study

    Interesting. Will this be a full-scale prevalence study like the ones Jason and the CDC did?
    Post by: ME/CFS Skeptic, Sep 26, 2019 in forum: ME/CFS research news
  2. ME/CFS Skeptic
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    MEAction: Join Our Values and Policy Initiative! September 2019

    Here's a link to the article: https://www.meaction.net/2019/09/24/join-our-values-and-policy-initiative/ I think it looks alright but that there...
    Post by: ME/CFS Skeptic, Sep 25, 2019 in forum: Advocacy Projects and Campaigns
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    RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials (2019) Sterne et al.

    What we would normally understand under risk of bias due to lack of blinding (the expectations, hopes and response bias of patients) is assessed...
    Post by: ME/CFS Skeptic, Sep 25, 2019 in forum: Research methodology news and research
  4. ME/CFS Skeptic
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    RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials (2019) Sterne et al.

    Thanks I'm going to link to your submitted comment, published on the other thread, in case some might have missed it:...
    Post by: ME/CFS Skeptic, Sep 25, 2019 in forum: Research methodology news and research
  5. ME/CFS Skeptic
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    RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials (2019) Sterne et al.

    This was only for blinding though. For selective reporting, it seems that deviations from the protocol are taken less seriously in the new tool....
    Post by: ME/CFS Skeptic, Sep 25, 2019 in forum: Research methodology news and research
  6. ME/CFS Skeptic
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    RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials (2019) Sterne et al.

    Could you give an example or do you mean that the more a tool tries to specify with rules how bias should be assessed, the more it gives the...
    Post by: ME/CFS Skeptic, Sep 25, 2019 in forum: Research methodology news and research
  7. ME/CFS Skeptic
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    RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials (2019) Sterne et al.

    I've mostly focused on the issue of blinding. On this aspect, the new tool is less bad than one would think after first reading the paper. I'll...
    Post by: ME/CFS Skeptic, Sep 24, 2019 in forum: Research methodology news and research
  8. ME/CFS Skeptic
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    RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials (2019) Sterne et al.

    Sorry that it took so long for me to come back to this thread. The original tool is described in the Cochrane handbook, chapter 8, which is...
    Post by: ME/CFS Skeptic, Sep 24, 2019 in forum: Research methodology news and research
  9. ME/CFS Skeptic
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    Graded activity is an important component in CBT to reduce severe fatigue: cancer survivors (Knoop et al., 2019)

    Spot on.
    Post by: ME/CFS Skeptic, Sep 24, 2019 in forum: Other psychosomatic news and research
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    Chronic fatigue syndrome: comparing outcomes in White British and Black and minority ethnic patients after CBT, 2016, Ingman, Bhui, Chalder

    This is a study from 2016
    Post by: ME/CFS Skeptic, Sep 24, 2019 in forum: Psychosomatic research - ME/CFS and Long Covid
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    Dialogues for a neglected illness - videos on experiences of people with ME (funded by Wellcome Foundation)

    I'm not sure if the theory of the researchers of the Workwell Foundation on the aerobic energy system being damaged in ME/CFS is correct, but I...
    Post by: ME/CFS Skeptic, Sep 24, 2019 in forum: Advocacy Projects and Campaigns
  12. ME/CFS Skeptic
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    Dialogues for a neglected illness - videos on experiences of people with ME (funded by Wellcome Foundation)

    Merged thread I saw this on Tom Kindlon's twitter page. The people who have made the documentary Voices from the Shadows are now working on...
    Post by: ME/CFS Skeptic, Sep 24, 2019 in forum: Advocacy Projects and Campaigns
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    Bias due to a lack of blinding: a discussion

    Gonna tag some people who might be interested in this discussion: @dave30th @strategist @Jonathan Edwards @Woolie @Esther12 @Caroline Struthers...
    Post by: ME/CFS Skeptic, Sep 22, 2019 in forum: Trial design including bias, placebo effect
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    Bias due to a lack of blinding: a discussion

    The history of blinding One more thing I would like to share is this article that goes into the history of blinding (Jensen et al. 2016). It says...
    Post by: ME/CFS Skeptic, Sep 22, 2019 in forum: Trial design including bias, placebo effect
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    Bias due to a lack of blinding: a discussion

    An unfair comparison I’m amazed by how little discussion this issue gets in the scientific literature. One person who has tried to raise the...
    Post by: ME/CFS Skeptic, Sep 22, 2019 in forum: Trial design including bias, placebo effect
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    Bias due to a lack of blinding: a discussion

    Trials with and without blinding A better way to study the effects of blinding is to look at trials that have two parts: one that is blinded and...
    Post by: ME/CFS Skeptic, Sep 22, 2019 in forum: Trial design including bias, placebo effect
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    Bias due to a lack of blinding: a discussion

    Problems with the meta-analysis approach There are some problems with this method though. Trials in the same meta-analysis differ in many ways and...
    Post by: ME/CFS Skeptic, Sep 22, 2019 in forum: Trial design including bias, placebo effect
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    Bias due to a lack of blinding: a discussion

    Meta-analyses The most common method to measure bias due to a lack of blinding in randomized controlled trials (RCT’s), is to look at...
    Post by: ME/CFS Skeptic, Sep 22, 2019 in forum: Trial design including bias, placebo effect
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    Bias due to a lack of blinding: a discussion

    First some basics Blinding (sometimes called masking) refers to the process of keeping key persons involved in the conduct of a trial unaware of...
    Post by: ME/CFS Skeptic, Sep 22, 2019 in forum: Trial design including bias, placebo effect
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    Bias due to a lack of blinding: a discussion

    I would like to use this thread for a discussion on the effects of a lack of blinding in randomized trials, something that frequently comes up in...
    Thread by: ME/CFS Skeptic, Sep 22, 2019, 251 replies, in forum: Trial design including bias, placebo effect
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