Sure, but what if they have pain, but not fibro? Could this test possibly lead to them no exploring alternative causes for the pain if it’s...
Could it instead be related to the exertion relative to their physical capabilities? And especially repeated over-exertion? I don’t know much...
How would a competent physician deal with the possibility of false positives?
Good point. It doesn’t seem like it should be applied to abuse cases. Edit for context: Part of my anxiety that I describe above stems from...
I have personal experience with parts of process two and three in a therapy setting, but my therapist never claimed that she could do anything for...
Here’s an overview of EAET (my bolding except for titles) The first part is mostly just make-believe and gaslighting. I can see how it could be...
Google gave me this: A corrective emotional experience, or CEE, is an event that disproves the negative beliefs about oneself that are formed by...
If we round those measurements to 80 and 70 %, and assume a prevalence of 5 % for fibro (probably too high of an estimate), we would get the...
What does this mean?
If I’ve correctly understood other member’s description of the process, NICE’s recommendation of non-curative CBT is not based on evidence. As far...
The lead author, McDowell, is a senior HTA analyst at HIQA. The Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) is an independent authority...
More from Cochrane (my bolding in the middle): Assessments of risk of bias and synthesis of results Summary assessments of the risk of bias for...
From Cochrane: 3. Assess the risk of bias in trial results, not the quality of reporting or methodological problems that are not directly related...
The used the original The Cochrane Collaboration’s tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials https://www.bmj.com/content/343/bmj.d5928
This is the protocol for the review: https://www.hiqa.ie/sites/default/files/2023-03/Long-COVID-Interventions_Protocol.pdf
These are the categories of bias that were assessed: Randomisation sequence generation Allocation concealment Selective reporting Other Blinding...
As participants cannot be blinded to the treatment allocation in exercise trials, this domain is inherently at high risk among all exercise...
The cynic in me wonders if this was not done on purpose. You wouldn’t run the risk of disproving your pet theory, especially when you have a...
They should probably have mentioned in the abstract that none of the studies assessed PEM. ———— Postexertional malaise No studies in the...
The BMJ link doesn’t work, only the pdf. The PubMed link works, but the link to BMJ is also broken there....
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