Clinical effectiveness of an online group physical & mental health rehab programme for post-covid-19 condition REGAIN study, 2024, McGregor+

Thanks, Andy! I hadn't seen that. ADDED: And I notice that they have NOT corrected the invited commentary published alongside the paper. The commentary makes zero mention of the fact that these patients had been hospitalized. ADDED: Actually, it mentions this in the last paragraph.

 

"Trial By Error: The BMJ Corrects REGAIN Study’s Expansive Claims; Results Only Applicable to Post-Hospitalized Long Covid Patients":

https://virology.ws/2024/11/18/tria...ble-to-post-hospitalized-long-covid-patients/

 

Thanks. After not being able to do much in the first week or so after the election, I'm getting back to work...

 

Thanks Dave, it's a corker and I think this one is really important.

I read through the last bit and it gave me a lot of thoughts:

Important to remind people of - I don't know if much has changed from the days of (other non-ME) things being written in the press that were 'found to be untrue/inaccurate' and then the cliche of expect an apology on page 480 in small print that noone reads many days later, but I'd like to think these journals think more of themselves than those heady days of the 90s press?

It's worth pointing out these things. Particularly as laypersons have that frame of reference to relate it to.

What makes it so hard for them to correct these things?

Oh, and I can't help but read the word 'unknown' in the last word of the first para of this quote and wonder how in this context I get the sense the assumption / inference of that term goes vs when it was used so leadingly in the term 'MUS' where there was a strong insinuation of 'no known cause' ie functional ie 'the mind' ie we all know what they actually meant... women huh!

vs the unknown related to 'of course we didn't study that population at all, in fact we didn't lay eyes on one person with that condition... but who knows we've a gut feeling maybe this might apply based on ..?'

Somehow I'm starting to think of the 90s again (and before) and 'the art of innuendo' .. and the wink wink nudge nudge of Carry On films etc