Very good point that some may get well before obtaining the diagnosis, as it takes so long to get it.
In Norway the GP gives A04, which is a very hetrogenous group of patients, making research on trajectories blurry. Hospitals/specialist healt care services give G93.3, and a majority of the...
If you were diagnosed by GP, you have an A04, and are not in the data set. The A04 category is very hetrogenous, and it would therefore be impossible to know who in that group would meet the Canada criteria, for eaxample. The G93.3 is a much more homogenous group, where most meet the Canada...
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1. You are absolutely right that there is a bias in the diagnosing og ME with G93.3, primarily affecting persons already socially deprived. Apart from that, the diagnostic process is quite thorough (see e.g. Owe et al 2016), although one must wonder whether some of the cases that...
Thank you! Figure 3 is actually better, this figure was mainly used as a robustness check, ensuring we could trust the 2009-2015 data as well, as it behaves very similarly as the complete 2016-2018 cohorts!
Thank you! Jing and I have actually written and submitted that article (with Kjartan from Sintef), so we hope it will be published in not too long. We used the same type of data for mothers, fathers, male and female partners. For method we used matchnig techniques to be able to better compare...
I'd like to introduce myself, I am Anne Kielland, one of the researchers behind this project. I wanted to let you all know that I now have a user here, and will from time to time check on comments. It’s nice to learn that people also outside Norway are interested in what we do.
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