The new consensus
Over the past 5 years, several reviews of clinical interventions for ME/CFS were published by
All blog posts in the category ‘Critique’ can be found here. We frequently post critical reviews of scientific research and guidelines on the topic of ME/CFS.
Category: Critique
A rebuttal of Flottorp et al. “New NICE guideline on chronic fatigue syndrome: more ideology than science?”
Flottorp and colleagues have published a commentary in the Lancet in which they criticize the
InTime: the results of Cortene’s CT38 trial
Cortene Inc., an American pharmaceutical company, recently published findings of a preliminary treatment trial in
Comments on the CDC evidence review on ME/CFS
In a previous blog post, we summarized the draft report of a systematic review on
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What long-term follow-up data tell us about the evidence on GET and CBT
After years of waiting, the long-term follow-up results of the GETSET study have finally been
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The NICE guideline committee and GRADE methodology
On 16 February, a group of researchers published a rapid response in the BMJ in
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Criticism of the 2020 NICE guideline draft: some things that could be improved
On 10 November 2020, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) released the
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My comments to the Cochrane review on exercise therapy for CFS
Problems with the amended version (Version published: 02 October 2019) part I. I appreciate the
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Why the Cochrane review on exercise therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome is still misleading
On Wednesday, October 2, Cochrane published a long-awaited amendment to its review of exercise therapy