diagnosis

  1. Andy

    Recognising and explaining functional neurological disorder, 2020, Stone et al

    Paywall, https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m3745 Sci hub, https://sci-hub.se/10.1136/bmj.m3745
  2. ME/CFS Skeptic

    Unconventional diagnostic tests for Lyme borreliosis: a systematic review, 2019, Raffetin et al.

    Abstract: Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1198743X1930388X The reason for posting this review of Lyme tests from 2019, is that in Belgium and elsewhere, doctors have used some of these tests such as the LTT-test and CD57+ to diagnose chronic Lyme disease.
  3. Dolphin

    An Autoethnography of a Registered Nurse Living with Chronic Undiagnosed Illness, 2020, Ricker

    While most of us probably have a diagnosis now, many of us went through a period without a diagnosis, so perhaps somebody might find something of interest in this. Free full text: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1065&context=nurs_etds
  4. Sly Saint

    Predicting GP visits: A multinomial logistic regression investigating GP visits amongst a cohort of UK patients living with ME: Walsh et al June 2020

    Predicting GP visits: A multinomial logistic regression investigating GP visits amongst a cohort of UK patients living with Myalgic encephalomyelitis https://bmcfampract.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12875-020-01160-7
  5. Sly Saint

    Cardiopulmonary Testing in ME/CFS to Improve Diagnostic Accuracy: due to be published Dec 2020

    University of Oslo https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02970240
  6. InfiniteRubix

    ME/SEID - a more accurate illness name than ME/CFS? (words only, nothing to do with diagnostic criteria)

    ME/SEID would be definitionally appropriate on literal terminological grounds, if associated with superior diagnostic criteria, such as the CCC or ICC. This would appear to be an improvement vs stigma, accurate understanding etc. for NICE purposes and actually offer a solid measure to adopt...
  7. Ravn

    website: Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine

    Don't think I've seen this discussed here? Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine: https://www.improvediagnosis.org/ Appears to be US based. May be an advocacy opportunity for someone, especially the patient engagement bit? Have only skimmed the site and found no mention of ME...
  8. Sly Saint

    Blog: Disease Begins Before Diagnosis - Feb 2020

    quite a long piece
  9. Sly Saint

    Biomedical Insights that Inform the Diagnosis of ME/CFS - Brett Lidbury and Paul Fisher 2020

    Received: 6 February 2020; Accepted: 6 February 2020; Published: 8 February 2020 pdf Biomedical Insights that Inform the Diagnosis of ME/CFS - MDPI...
  10. Sly Saint

    Health-related quality of life in adolescents with CFS/ME, a cross-sectional population based Norwegian study-Simila,Halsteinli,Helland et al Feb 2020

    https://www.researchsquare.com/article/2cbbe49c-bacd-499d-9b58-711c37b05aea/v1
  11. Sly Saint

    Dr Chiklys diagnosis and treatment for CFS/FM- US version of Perrin

    USA/ Canada classes LDT Applications to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, MS & Chronic Neuroinflammations (LCFS-FM) I think noto_O https://chiklyinstitute.com/Class/LDT/LCFS-FM https://chiklyinstitute.com/ [also available in Malaysia...
  12. Kalliope

    Sweden: Seminar for doctors on how to distinguish ME from chronic fatigue/burnout

    The Journal of the Swedish Medical Association is arranging this seminar for the third year in a row. They've had 1 100 participants till now and I believe it's been one of their most popular seminars ever. This time the seminar will take place in Sundsvall April 1st. There will be two...
  13. Sly Saint

    Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Test Your Strengths and Gaps in Knowledge Authors: Nancy Klimas, MD

    " CME Information Target Audience and Goal Statement This activity is intended for primary care physicians, pediatricians and other clinicians who manage patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). The goal of this activity is to assess physician knowledge of...
  14. Sly Saint

    Medically unexplained symptoms: time to and triggers for diagnosis in primary care consultations - Houwen et al BJGP 2020

    Received May 27, 2019. Revision requested June 18, 2019. Accepted July 16, 2019. © British Journal of General Practice 2020 https://bjgp.org/content/early/2020/01/13/bjgp20X707825
  15. Barry

    BBC Radio 4 - The Diagnosis, 11.00am Tue 7 Jan 2020

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000cz0y [my bold] This may well be relevant to the discussion on MUS @dave30th.
  16. Sly Saint

    Article: 5 Stages Experienced by Those with Chronic Illness

    full article here https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/turning-straw-gold/201912/5-stages-experienced-those-chronic-illness
  17. Sly Saint

    (ME/CFS): Investigating care practices pointed out to disparities in diagnosis and treatment across European Union - Strand, Nacul (EUROMENE) 2019

    full paper here https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0225995
  18. Sly Saint

    Vitamin D-binding protein as a biomarker to confirm specific clinical diagnoses - Lisowska-Myak et al Dec 2019

    thought this might be of interest https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14737159.2020.1699064 full paper behind paywall, no sci-hub yet.
  19. Sly Saint

    Article: The 5 Stages of a Chronic-Illness Diagnosis

    full blog here https://elemental.medium.com/diagnosis-is-a-process-not-an-event-db1e6ae2ac35
  20. Andy

    MEAction: "DEMYSTIFYING THE DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA FOR ME AND RELATED DISEASE"

    https://www.meaction.net/2019/11/14/demystifying-the-diagnostic-criteria/
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