chris burton

Summary Persistent physical symptoms (synonymous with persistent somatic symptoms) is an umbrella term for distressing somatic complaints that last several months or more, regardless of their cause. These symptoms are associated with substantial disability and represent a major burden for...

Other authors include Vincent Deary and Christopher Burton. Highlights Medical consultations for persistent (“medically unexplained”) physical symptoms present particular challenges Symptoms can be explained as central and peripheral processes; however these explanations are rarely used in...

Thought it could be helpful to have an own thread on EURONET-SOMA. From the blurb: Persistent somatic symptoms are common and complex phenomena which pose major challenges to psychosomatics and many other medical specialties across Europe. [...] Chronic courses of disorders are common and...

https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/research/centres/ctru/mss3 I don't see a thread on this. The list of contributors imply a very expensive price tag for doing copy-paste research that's been done many times before. No idea if ME is an exclusion criteria, very few details. Obviously not a...

This is a letter we sent from S4ME to NICE as discussed in a voting thread for those members who have posted enough to have voting rights. Sorry I forgot to post it here earlier

Chris Burton, who is on the NICE panel reviewing the ME/CFS guidelines, is behind this study apparently. Note that an earlier version used the term chronic fatigue syndrome instead of chronic fatigue. http://www.isrctn.com/editorial/retrieveFile/6b3d6b51-92b3-4825-89a8-9060bf0da471/35773...

Just spotted this on ME Research UK's Facebook page. [The current committee member list can be found on this page, https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/indevelopment/gid-ng10091/documents. Previously I linked directly to it but NICE keep changing the file name, this way, hopefully, the latest...