My thoughts as a lay person: 1) The relevance of symptoms for making a diagnosis is different from the relevance of symptoms for measuring a...
As the title indicates. Proponents of therapist delivered treatments like psychotherapy or exercise repeatedly rejected the argument that relying...
I thought it could be worthwhile to have a closer look at a particular claim of some defenders of research on the Lightning Process and similarly...
Anker, S D, Agewall, S, Borggrefe M et al, 2014, The importance of patient-reported outcomes: a call for their comprehensive integration in...
So, only one example for this double cherry-picking for now. The review authors state: "Mediation analysis of CBT for CFS has revealed that...
One last addition to the first point -- how the review authors use references to justify their own past and future research. It appears to be a...
3.) More a question: That’s how the review authors deal with the impossibility to blind patients and treatment providers to the intervention:...
2.) The review authors acknowledge that the evidence from the current state of research is too uncertain to conclude anything about the...
That's what I thought, too. Added to my previous post: The review authors weren't involved in any of the studies considered for the actual...
I thought this was an interesting study 'nevertheless'. Carson et al (2015): "The total symptom count was greater for patients with symptoms...
Carson AJ, Stone J, Hansen CH, et al, Somatic symptom count scores do not identify patients with symptoms unexplained by disease: a prospective...
The review authors mention two relevant ongoing studies: "We identified two studies that have not been completed (Poort; Serfaty)" See...
I guess they would reply you should look at all the research that supports the potential effectiveness -- research that they've done themselves or...
:thumbup: :laugh: That thread had consisted of more than 800 posts even before Jonathan added some advice for the authors of the Lancet piece....
Don't know when I will have the capacities to write more why I think this Cochrane Review, even though from 2017, deserved a comment. Here's...
From the section "How the intervention might work": "Although research has provided empirical support for the efficacy of psychosocial...
There's nothing added on the withdrawn protocol's page indicating a planned update. But this was only on exercise, not on CBT. So there seem to...
Psychosocial interventions for fatigue during cancer treatment with palliative intent (Cochrane Review), 2017 Hanneke Poort, Marlies Peters, Gijs...
Not ME or MUS related, but some maybe interesting interaction on PubPeer following criticism of biomedical research:...
From Flottorp's et al Lancet comment on the new NICE guideline: Edit: KGB = Kjetil G Brurberg HK = Hans Knoop
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