Behavior change is difficult—just ask any psychologist. A new study shows behavior change among psychologists is no different. Efforts to improve...
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1359105319847261?journalCode=hpqa#articleShareContainer Abstract Cognitive behavioural therapy and...
B-Lymphocyte Depletion in Patients With Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial...
A longish read. I skimmed through. An interesting quote from near the end: The activists questioned the gold standard of medical intervention...
Two papers published today on the same subject, first: COMPare: a prospective cohort study correcting and monitoring 58 misreported trials in...
Saw Keith Geraghty share this on Twitter. The outcomes reported for trials often differ from those specified in the protocol. Douglas Altman,...
Real-world studies no substitute for RCTs in establishing efficacy January 19, 2019 1 We live in the real world, so it is reasonable to expect...
Abstract Background Health guidelines are developed to improve patient care by ensuring the most recent and ‘best available evidence’ is used to...
I know Ben Goldacre hasn't exactly covered himself in glory in relation to PACE but he does nevertheless say some interesting things. At the...
European academics are failing abysmally when it comes to reporting the results of clinical trials, a study has revealed. An analysis of data...
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for MuScle Disease (ACTMuS): Protocol for a two-arm randomised controlled trial of a brief guided self-help ACT...
There are a number of tools available for journals to use to help assess RCTs. I wondered if anyone here had 'tried them out' for PACE and/or any...
Yoga, Depression, & Clinical Trial Critique 101 Posted August 12, 2018 by Hilda Bastian in Evidence, Health...
"Much of the social and medical sciences depend on randomised control trials. But while this may be considered the foundational experimental...
From 2015 but to be presented in a talk in July at the Society for Academic Primary Care conference: https://sapc.ac.uk/conference/2018 Approach...
Citation Picariello F, Moss-Morris R, Macdougall IC, et al Cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) for renal fatigue (BReF): a feasibility...
A randomised controlled trial of the monoaminergic stabiliser (-)-OSU6162 in treatment of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome....
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