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ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting FY 2021 (October 1, 2020 - September 30, 2021) https://dxrevisionwatch.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/10cmguidelines-fy2021.pdf Selected extracts: (...) 11. Inclusion terms List of terms is included under some codes. These terms are the...

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The MEA was asked this by someone on Facebook after the guideline was released. Charles Shepherd replied that it was on the MEA's "to do" list. ME Association on Facebook ME Association "Thanks for all these very helpful comments. Yes - this NHS information needs much more than a quick...

I'd be interested to know how O'Leary would rationalise the NCHS/CDC September proposal to revise the structure of the ICD-10-CM G93.3 Tabular List codes from its current structure: G93.3 Postviral fatigue syndrome Benign myalgic encephalomyelitis Excludes1: chronic fatigue syndrome NOS...

MEA has another NICE related poll: "Dr Shepherd, Honoray [sic] Medical Adviser to the MEA explains why we've asked this question in our November poll on our Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/meassociation/posts/4539214056136217

I would have preferred to have seen this proposed restructure: G93.3 Postviral and related fatigue syndromes (though I am not happy about the inclusion of the words "fatigue" and "syndrome" in the name of this proposed revision to the G93.3 class) G93.31 Postviral fatigue syndrome G93.32...

Extract from my feedback submission (pages 3-5): 3 Creation of a new ICD entity: “Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome” Both sets of proposals recommend adding a new entity to ICD-10-CM’s Tabular List: “Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome” and the acronym “ME/CFS”...

This is what the site says today: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-vaccination/book-coronavirus-vaccination/book-or-manage-a-booster-dose-of-the-coronavirus-covid-19-vaccine/ Book or manage a booster dose of the coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine Who can use this...

A new and contradictory study appears to be published every few months - compare with benefits of statins. We usually have a small glass of red with our evening meal every day (but never any more than one per day); we've recently reduced that to three times a week, but only because of new...

I'd been checking the NHS booking site every couple of days for eligibility; we were told we were eligible last Wednesday, before we'd received the blue envelope NHS booking invitations (mine didn't arrive until this morning) so late mailed out letters may also be putting off some from checking...

Glad you've been able to book a booster, Wonko. I was reading this morning there are concerns that take up has been lower than expected: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59191506 We weren't able to book boosters until Wednesday, last week. The earliest appointments available at the venue our GP...

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They did eventually clean up those typos but the text stood like that until at least June 2006. (Wayback can't locate the URL beyond that date, so I expect the text was moved to another page.) Pauline Powell was an investigator on the FINE Trial.

I've just checked the 25% ME Group's page for Patrons, Trustees, and Advisers. Dr. Byron Hyde is listed as a Patron but Bruce Campbell isn't listed as a Patron or Adviser. The last paragraph I haven't been able to find on any other sites. The rest of the document appears to have had the...

I'm never very comfortable with documents for which no author's name is given. But I was curious about who had authored this. I put the first paragraph into Google, and up comes this site: http://cfsselfhelp.org/library/pacing-vs-push-crash and an article by Bruce Campbell Pacing vs. Push...

Merged thread Washington Post: Could long covid unlock clues to chronic fatigue and other poorly understood conditions? Health Could long covid unlock clues to chronic fatigue and other poorly understood conditions? By Frances Stead Sellers Today at 7:00 a.m. EST...

In June 2004, the Editor of BMJ Rapid Responses approved a Rapid Response in which I had included the entire text of that article: https://www.bmj.com/rapid-response/2011/10/30/jam-both-sides Rapid Response: Jam on both sides? Suzy Chapman 10 June 2004 I'd like to draw readers' attention to...

Quite a lot of the content of KCL's CFS pages is old. Last time I looked, they still had stuff on the site from when Vincent Deary was working there. The awful article: PHYSIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME By Mary Burgess PhD - based on the work of Pauline Powell. predated 2004...