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Brief Thoughts on why I'm passionate to get rid of "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome"
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I have been reflecting on reasons why I'm passionate to get rid of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) following a Twitter exchange yesterday. I had a long battle against the CDC's empiric criteria which found that 2.54% of the population were affected. It was a terrible definition. For example, 89%...
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A comment on using the SF-36 PF subscale in CBT and GET trials for CFS (from 2007, but timeless)
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(I originally posted this on Co-Cure back in 2007 but thought I'd post it somewhere else now. The same points still apply I thought people might find it interesting to look at the SF-36 physical functioning sub-scale as it is one of the two primary outcome measures in the PACE trial and in...

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