Week beginning 14th October 2024 News, articles and advocacy The Guardian Maeve Boothby O´Neill died because of a discredited view of ME. How...
I think it is worth considering adding the specialism of rehab medicine into the mix. This seems to either come with or have unfortunately...
...the correct approach. It is not the patients’ fault that the PACE trial researched CFS. If you click on the links attached the “(ME/CFS)” in...
Pretty much every trainee that I have worked with understands the essential critique. It is, after all, the reason why we spend millions on...
...members, also maybe thanks to the appearance of Long Covid, the PACE trial and related claims now have lost credibility in the field of ME/CFS...
But, over and above the arguments given, that is just another appeal to authority. George doesn't actually mention why the trial was a...
Not sure if its actually wrong or just not clearly worded. "The critics were right" I think is the important part. Edit: What @dave30th and...
It's true it made no difference in whether the trial was a piece of garbage--that was apparent. But it made a big difference in being able to...
OK but that is actually wrong too. The poor methodology and invalidity of the results is transparent from the original Lancet article - which was...
While I agree with your suggestion on the three-versus-two-boxes, I think the bit about appealing to authority by referencing NICE is not what...
...today which is now referred to as Pacing-up. This looks and feels like the Adaptive Pacing from the PACE trial. This is the south west all over.
Plus not only did he have the power of running some of the trials and picking the therapists but he ran the royal colleges for these professions...
I think that is very interesting. For their model to work then there had to be some kind of transferable treatment. There had to be a form of...
That would be far more convincing if there were such a thing. It's not as if PACE featured that, at least outside of a definition that is "trained...
...where I saw it) as a counterargument to criticism of the PACE trial; if harm has occurred it is not the trial, it's not the treatment, it's...
Very hard to see how this was a genuine concern of his, he's been absurdly wrong most of his career but he is not delusional. He is very...
...Simon Wessely said to me in an email that he was worried the PACE trial would mean that all sorts of incompetent psychologists would be...
And sleep hygiene/reducing rest. if they are still being forced in people anyway then the ethical but has been blown by someone else anyway.
...the intervention, there was no non-intervention group. In the PACE trial, the SMC(no treatment) group mean scores on the 6MWD improved by 22m,...
I've just popped in from a six month absence due to severe PEM to let you all know that I have written to my MP. Wasn't sure where to post it, as...
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