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Wan H, Wei B, Qian W, Zhang J. Trends and Hotspots in the Health Economics Evaluation of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. J Multidiscip Healthc. 2024;17:4877-4892
https://doi.org/10.2147/JMDH.S482100

https://www.dovepress.com/trends-an...onic-fati-peer-reviewed-fulltext-article-JMDH

Trends and Hotspots in the Health Economics Evaluation of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Authors Wan H , Wei B, Qian W, Zhang J

Received 14 June 2024

Accepted for publication 15 October 2024

Published 24 October 2024 Volume 2024:17 Pages 4877—4892

DOI https://doi.org/10.2147/JMDH.S482100

Checked for plagiarism Yes

Review by Single anonymous peer review

Peer reviewer comments 2

Editor who approved publication: Dr Pavani Rangachari

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Hejia Wan,1,* Bingqi Wei,2,* Wenli Qian,3 Jing Zhang1

1School of Nursing, Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou, People’s Republic of China; 2School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou, People’s Republic of China; 3School of Management, Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou, People’s Republic of China

*These authors contributed equally to this work

Correspondence: Jing Zhang, Email 1839640376@qq.com

Objective:

To explore the research trends and hotspots of health economics evaluations of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome.

Methods:

To explore the research trends and hotspots of health economics evaluations of chronic fatigue syndrome, 180 articles published between 1991 and 2024 were visualized and analyzed via CiteSpace 6.3 software. R3 and VOSviewer1.6.20 and R4.3.3. The content includes annual publication volume, journal distribution, author country, publishing organization, author collaboration, citation analysis, and keyword analysis in 7 aspects.

Results:

Fewer studies have evaluated the health economics of individuals with chronic fatigue syndrome in China and abroad, Chinese studies are especially rare, and research results in the UK are mostly found in other countries. Moreover, cooperation and linkages between institutions, as well as between authors, are not yet strong.

Conclusion:

The hotspot of health economics evaluation methods in this field is cost-effectiveness analysis, and the hotspot of diagnosis and treatment methods is cognitive‒behavioral therapy. We also found that chronic fatigue syndrome may also have a strong potential association with depression from the perspective of health economics. Health economic evaluations of multiple treatments should be conducted simultaneously to increase attention to this field and provide a reference basis for low-cost and high-quality diagnostic and treatment programs.

Keywords: chronic fatigue syndrome, myalgic encephalomyelitis, health economics, CiteSpace, visual analysis, bibliometrics
 
Author affliations:
School of Nursing, Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou, People’s Republic of China;
School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou, People’s Republic of China;
School of Management, Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou, People’s Republic of China


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The hotspot of health economics evaluation methods in this field is cost-effectiveness analysis, and the hotspot of diagnosis and treatment methods is cognitive‒behavioral therapy. We also found that chronic fatigue syndrome may also have a strong potential association with depression from the perspective of health economics. Health economic evaluations of multiple treatments should be conducted simultaneously to increase attention to this field and provide a reference basis for low-cost and high-quality diagnostic and treatment programs.
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This seems to be part of a big push to promote traditional Chinese medicine remedies for CFS and Long Covid. We've been seeing a lot of papers promoting acupuncture, Chinese massage and herbal remedies as well as papers clearing the path for them, including reviews on epidemiology and now this one on health economics.
 
Hutan said:
This seems to be part of a big push to promote traditional Chinese medicine remedies for CFS and Long Covid. We've been seeing a lot of papers promoting acupuncture, Chinese massage and herbal remedies as well as papers clearing the path for them, including reviews on epidemiology and now this one on health economics.
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Makes a lot of sense from that perspective. TCM treatments can easily be shown to be just as 'effective' as any of the behavioral stuff. Using the same methodologies. They can also probably be found to be cheaper. It would actually be quite a coup, 'besting' Western medicine using its own tools to show the superiority of TCM. I'm surprised we haven't seen a big push for this yet. It's so cheap and easy to do. As much as our BPS ideologues simply flood the space with their BS, there are only a few dozens of them. They can easily be outproduced for cheap.
 
Yes, exactly right. This paper found that the treatment they have to beat is CBT. And yes, if the same sort of research methodology is used, pretty much any treatment that can be made to seem a bit credible (e.g. thousands of years of medical traditions) can be at least as good as CBT.
 
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I lost any hope for the BPS crowd being shamed by others use of their bad science. I had thought Prof Crawley’s Lightening Process study would be the reductio ad absurdum of this research methodology, but instead the BPSers swung behind quackery of LP.

Presumably unless they can just get away with pretending this hasn’t happened, they will end up advocating for traditional Chinese medicine too.
 
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