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Thank you, @Dx Revision Watch, that looks like a very helpful summary for people like me who don't have the capacity to read all this discussion. Some questions occur to me: Is there a difference between the 2013 and 2014 documents on what payments to trustees are permitted and which need...

I note that the question is what is a good questionnaire for diagnosing PEM. I think that depends on the purpose. If it's for a scientific study, then the questions Andy has listed that were used in DecodeME seem pretty straightforward and sensible. If it's for a doctor diagnosing an...

Yes, I agree Tovey was part of the problem. He presumably allowed the 2017 update, and approved the same review team working to submit newer versions, he also asked them to make further edits. All I was pointing out was that approval of the current 2019 version happened after he left, so we...

Thanks for trying it out, Braganca. It's interesting to see what it picked out from the mass of published information. However it seems to me to be much less useful than a research review article written by a team of experts which has been filtered by knowledgeable brains and is fully...

I'll try to come back to this when I have a more functioning brain.

I suppose so, but it just has a yes/no/not sure answer, rather than creating fantasy numerical scores that can be misinterpreted and give false answers.

My preference is not to use questionnaires. I think it's more honest, and likely to get a more accurate response if the person is given a clear definition of PEM, including commonly experienced delay, duration, sýmptom increase, loss of function, and simply asked, is this something you...

I think Hilda is just pointing out the policy seems to be ambiguous.

If you're well enough to have blood tests, it might be worth being checked for nutritional deficiencies. I take a daily general multivitamin and mineral as a precaution against deficiencies. No idea if it does any good.

I can't help wondering whether people like Live Landmark actually believe this bullshit, or are really just doing it to make money. Surely they know by now that lots of their clients get sicker.

I have tried to clarify this with Hilda Bastian on her talkpage: She replied:

Yes, thats correct, but he had left by the time the redraft was approved by KSW in 2019. I was responding to rvallee's post that said Tovey approved the 2019 update. He didn’t.

It was Karla Soares Weisser who approved the 2019 Larun review update, not Tovey.

I wonder whether palliative care physicians might be willing to get involved. I think you said one of the NICE guideline committee is in that field.

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I agree with what you say, @Yann04. It's very important that cause and effect are not confused. However, there is another problem that papers like this never seem to mention. The questionnaires are designed on the assumption that answers relate to the person's personality or character, not to...

Those sort of clinical trials that are high risk and high reward are for new drugs being tested on healthy people before being tested on sick people. The majority of clinical trials are the later stage ones where the drug has already been tested and found safe for human use, and is now being...

Oh how delightful, so we are neurotic, disagreeable, introverts now. Oh, but hang on, we're only more disagreeable than healthy controls, we're more agreeable than somatic controls. So that's all right then. This sort of 'research' disgusts me.

Commenting on this post from another thread, I have not seen any evidence from any properly conducted controlled clinical trial for Abilify being better than a placebo effect. I agree we have seen some anecdotes on social media, including on this forum, from people who describe significant...

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