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I couldn't find the criticism by C. Eccleston, Amanda Williams et al. on the forum so just leave the link here: Eccleston, C., Aldington, D., Moore, A., & de C Williams, A. C. (2021). Pragmatic but flawed: the NICE guideline on chronic pain. The Lancet, 397(10289), 2029–2031...

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Sorry for posting another annoying paper but given the latest utterances of diverse spokespersons of the Royal Colleges, it seems to me that this line of thinking is more widespread among doctors, also in the UK, than I had thought. From the abstract, I found the following line of thinking...

Wade DT, Halligan PW. The biopsychosocial model of illness: a model whose time has come. Clin Rehabil. 2017 Aug;31(8):995-1004. doi: 10.1177/0269215517709890. PMID: 28730890. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0269215517709890?icid=int.sj-full-text.similar-articles.2 Abstract The...

Yes, thank you @dave30th . Agree. Haven't read the article in The New Yorker, but I think there actually needs to be more caution in assessing the epidemiological and biomedical research that's been done, too. We discuss that topic related to ME research time and again on the forum. For...

The German Network for evidence-based medicine awarded this study with the David Sackett Prize 2021: David Sackett Award 2021 for a randomized-controlled trial in the field of rehabilitation science "The CED Project Group at the Center for Population Medicine and Health Services Research at...

Hüppe A, Langbrandtner J, Lill C, Raspe H. The Effectiveness of Actively Induced Medical Rehabilitation in Chronic Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Dtsch Arztebl Int. 2020 Feb 7;117(6):89-96. doi: 10.3238/arztebl.2020.0089. PMID: 32102728; PMCID: PMC7075457...

Article in Focus, a German weekly: (2021-09-21) Hope for millions of people affected German doctor cures Long Covid for the first time: "It's like a giant miracle" At the Eye Clinic in Erlangen, doctors have achieved something that has never been done before: Four Long Covid patients were...

(Continued from above) 3) Intimidation and bullying of PACE trial critics https://me-pedia.org/wiki/Intimidation_and_bullying_of_PACE_trial_critics

I'm sorry @Obermann you have to deal with this telling behavior of a BPS proponent. I'm not well enough ATM to comment properly -- just leaving here the idea to expand the content if this thread a bit, and adding some hopefully self-explaining cues and links here. 1) Rejecting FOI requests as...

It seems the participants weren't asked about PEM or any form of (delayed) post exertion symptom exacerbation?

Had a look at the SMC expert reactions and saw that some of my questions already were covered in David Strain's comment: Dr David Strain, Senior Clinical Lecturer, University of Exeter, said: “There are some significant limitations in this study that may, if anything, under-estimate the effect...

I think it makes sense to ask about previous mental and physical health but if they didn't ask about actual medical/ psychiatric diagnoses -- not so much. It looks like they didn't ask about frequency and duration of previous health issues and not even about ongoing chronic illness?

Apologies, once again only able to skim -- anyone knows and has the time and energy to post what exactly the study investigated? From skimming it seems, they initially only grouped according to positive or negative test results, and three months after the test then retrospectively asked...

Thanks, Trish, and again apologies for not being on point. I tried now several times to look up in the draft guideline what it says about patients' coping with work, especially about younger patients' coping with planning a career, and doctors' roles in issuing sick leaves, referring to...

I wonder if in the UK there is something like a partial retirement based on reduced earning capacity so that people get a financial compensation if they cant' work full time without urging you to either approve to a pre-defined phased return nor to try how you get on with a part time job on...

Tried to find by skimming but haven't : In which way did the authors acknowledge the fact that the patient samples were a mix of CF diagnosis and also different CFS diagnostic criteria?

Yes, for example: Vink M, Vink-Niese A. The draft updated NICE guidance for ME/CFS highlights the unreliability of subjective outcome measures in non-blinded trials. Journal of Health Psychology. January 2021 (Editorial), doi:10.1177/1359105321990810...

See also: S A M Stevelink, N T Fear, M Hotopf, T Chalder, Factors associated with work status in chronic fatigue syndrome, Occupational Medicine, Volume 69, Issue 6, August 2019, Pages 453–458, https://doi.org/10.1093/occmed/kqz108...

A summary of papers in which BPS proponents disproved both their current hypotheses and interpretations of findings in past research papers and reviews but fail to acknowledge this would be fine I think. The biggest challenge of that task seems to be to focus on the most relevant points, as...