Yes this summary includes my opinion of it (for example that a SF-36 physical function lower than 60 is pretty bad) and I focused on things that...
Sorry for the long delay. Here’s a short summary of the Belgian assessment report. Part I The first 60 pages give an overview of international...
Wasn't this a problem of the database and ICD-codes rather than of the diagnosis itself? Could be that doctors used these symptoms to make the...
One problem with these online surveys is that the diagnosis is not checked by a specialist. It is possible that some of the participants had been...
I see your point but maybe the authors of the survey intended it this way so that GET/CBT proponents cannot criticize the definition and argue...
The questionnaire reads: So this is for UK patients only I suppose?
I see it differently. I think the review has allready taken place. It was concluded that new guidelines needed to be written to reflect recent...
I’ll probably get criticized for being naïve in posting this. It’s not that I don’t see many problems or how far we actually are from...
Yesterday the Belgium assessment report from the ME/CFS centre in Leuven came out. There are a lot of bad things in this report. CBT was for...
The full assessment report about the ME/CVS center in Leuven is now available online (In Dutch only, no English summary):...
Didn't the fact that they looked at codes with continuous enrollment from 2 to 4 years partially solve that problem of PVFS cases resolving in a...
Yes, I was making the argument with the NICE guidelines in mind. I think we should not ask for better informed GPs with the idea that they could...
Yes. I basically ignored the results of ME + CFS diagnoses because of the problems with the ICD-CM codes for CFS and I focused on ME-results only,...
Sad that there are ME/CFS centres without someone who can make the diagnosis of ME/CFS. On twitter I heard from Sasha that the same was true in...
This is an important paper, with lots of data. I tried to tweet a summary of it: 1) An important paper on ME/CFS was published today. The...
Don't know about this. How would they test this, it would simply be one specialist opinion versus another.
True. Guess I just wanted to make the point and saw this as an occasion to do so. I think I have seen the ME Association claim that GPs should be...
I don't think GPs should be making the diagnosis of ME/CFS, so I went for "An understanding of the impact of symptoms and awareness of...
Indeed. Her bio on PLOS reads: This is nice.
Hilda Bastian is a well respected skeptic who has a blog on Plos One about science and research methodology. Would be great if she got involved as...
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