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AHRQ Evidence Review Changes Its Conclusions

Mary Dimmock has led the way on this issue, and is co-author of this post. In response to requests by U.S. patient organizations and advocates, the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has issued an Addendum to its … Continue reading

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Showing the Back of Their Heads

The final P2P report is published, and now it’s time to evaluate the quality of the recommendations and how well the process served ME/CFS patients. There are many good things in the P2P report, and I’ll be focusing on those … Continue reading

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Running in the Background

Sometimes, there’s no real news to report because things are running in the background. If you are a Mac user, then you are probably familiar with the beach ball of death. It just spins and spins while you wait for … Continue reading

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Comments on P2P Systematic Evidence Review

After four weeks of intense work, a group of advocates has submitted forty pages of comments on the P2P systematic evidence review. We published a summary of our comments last week. If you want to read the full document, you … Continue reading

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Evidence Review Comments Preview

This post comes via Mary Dimmock, Claudia Goodell, Denise Lopez-Majano, and myself. You are welcome to publish it on your site with attribution and a link back to this post. You are also welcome to use this (and other material … Continue reading

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They Know What They’re Doing (Not)

This post comes via Mary Dimmock, with assistance from Claudia Goodell, Denise Lopez-Majano, and myself. You are welcome to publish it on your site with attribution to Mary Dimmock.   Last week, Jennie Spotila and Erica Verillo posted summaries of … Continue reading

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A Review of the P2P Systematic Review

The draft systematic evidence review on the Diagnosis and Treatment of ME/CFS was published online last week. It’s a monster – 416 pages in total. I know many ME/CFS patients may not be able to read this report, so in … Continue reading

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Mary Dimmock: Fight the Power

The draft P2P evidence review report has been issued and we have all had a chance to see just how appallingly bad it is. Now the question is what to do next. Some have called for us to oppose P2P … Continue reading

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