The CDC empiric criteria (Reeves et al, 2005), an operationalisation of the Fukuda criteria, used this method....
Note that there were lots of other symptoms that were more common than the symptoms looked at but not as common as the “core” symptoms that were...
I used to think recovery of muscle strength might be useful as a required symptom. But studies like this make be question that. Even the results...
I think the best criteria may be by obtained by summing scores of symptoms, including severity and frequency. But if one wants required symptoms,...
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It is unclear to me whether there were any requirements for specific symptoms:
This makes me think that one or more of the PACE Trial team were involved in it or how would they know this?
Yes, he has expressed that concern before.
Frank Twisk replied: Extract: I remain to be convinced that cognitive symptoms should not be a requirement. It seems to weak to base this on one...
It is a little interesting to see the dynamics of applying for disability payments/benefits being discussed in a paper. And though I'm not 100%...
They do later on go on to say that the classes need to be replicated, so I suppose this is not totally unreasonable. But for the moment, it might...
This might put them at odds with supporters of the international consensus criteria, for example. I think the authors of this study might need to...
This seems a common enough finding: the more severe an illness people have, the more symptoms they have. It was interesting previously when Jason...
I have to wonder with at least some these particular symptoms, how accurately people are reporting them. People could concentrate on some...
This is the main table. The numbers are the probabilities somebody from a particular class had the symptom (using the 2/2 threshold) [ATTACH]
I don't understand the details but the authors had different options to choose from. The one they chose wasn't the best on all measures.
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