This really needs to be changed. Of course ME can involve pain, but it is not a "chronic pain syndrome"; very poor practice to lump them together....
What frustrates me the most about all of this is the knowledge of what could have been. We finally had a guideline that "both sides" were willing...
This is a misrepresentation - the reviews were not excluded solely because of mortality. Three Cochrane reviews were excluded from Evidence Review...
While Dr Cheney was well known in the U.S. for the compassion and care he provided to his ME/CFS patients over many years, I'm afraid that this...
Dr Tuller's (excellent) blog highlights one of the points Knoop made: Not new. This argument was also made by RCPsych in their responses to the...
I may be missing something here, but there seems to be something curious about the demographic data (p27) - e.g. summing the "Occupational status"...
First thoughts after a very brief skim: the authors wrongly state that PEM is a required feature of the NICE 2007 guidelines (in fact,...
The questions beginning "During the past 4 weeks, how much have you been bothered by any of the following problems" section are from PHQ-15 (PDF)....
For anyone else curious about Garner's reading material, I've found a copy of this text here: PDF:...
There are also a number of examples of Long COVID clinics being integrated with IAPT, MUS/PPS services and liaison psychiatry in RCPsych's expert...
Perhaps notable that the editor-in-chief of the Occupational Medicine journal also happens to be, as the President of the Faculty of Occupational...
A Scottish Government (Health Improvement) hosted webinar for GPs on long COVID has been posted to YouTube; a copy of the slides is available...
Perhaps I should've said most senior interested physician. However, she has definitely been involved in producing materials for "CRESTA", their...
There is a little hint on p478 that a therapist may have written, or co-authored, the Newcastle' clinic's response: Nonetheless, it seems likely...
I'm not sure I'd draw that parallel - never seen any evidence of any increased incidence of coagulopathies in ME/CFS, although there are many such...
One of the complaints in the stakeholder consultation responses is that the data extraction occurred at the longest follow-up period available...
As Dr Wall is the director of clinical commissioning for Bolton CCG, perhaps someone on Twitter could flag this to the charities for their liaison...
I don't think the NICE Pathways document has yet been posted: https://pathways.nice.org.uk/pathways/me-chronic-fatigue-syndrome There's also a...
Perhaps, but the list of invitees was passed to stakeholders beforehand (post here). No rehab specialist organisations on the list.
Also, strangely, in the minutes of the round table, Lynne Turner-Stokes appears to have no organisational affiliation, being listed as...
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