Nielk
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The IOM report states that the following are the charges from HHS to the IOM panel:
• conduct a study to identify the evidence for various clinical diagnostic criteria for
ME/CFS using a process with input from stakeholders, including practicing clinicians
and patients;
• develop evidence-based clinical diagnostic criteria for ME/CFS for use by clinicians,
using a consensus-building methodology;
• recommend whether new terminology for ME/CFS should be adopted; and
• develop an outreach strategy for disseminating the new criteria nationwide to health
professionals.
They were charged to decide whether there was a need for a new terminology but, were they within their scope in creating a new name for ME/CFS?
• conduct a study to identify the evidence for various clinical diagnostic criteria for
ME/CFS using a process with input from stakeholders, including practicing clinicians
and patients;
• develop evidence-based clinical diagnostic criteria for ME/CFS for use by clinicians,
using a consensus-building methodology;
• recommend whether new terminology for ME/CFS should be adopted; and
• develop an outreach strategy for disseminating the new criteria nationwide to health
professionals.
They were charged to decide whether there was a need for a new terminology but, were they within their scope in creating a new name for ME/CFS?