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Human Rights Watch blog: FOI & unpublished data from a RCT (PACE Trial)

Dolphin

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"One final observation. QM nearly got itself into trouble in this case because of its curious publication strategy. It is odd to publish research about the merits of a given set of treatments, without having finalised one’s analytical work on the therapy-specific demerits. From a medical ethics perspective, I wonder to what extent the clinicians and patients appreciated that to some extent the 2011 Lancet publication was work-in-progress – because that is the implication of QM’s arguments on this appeal."
final paragraph from

http://ukhumanrightsblog.com/2013/0...-from-a-randomised-controlled-trial-on-mecfs/

JUNE 12, 2013 BY DAVID HART QC

Freedom of information and unpublished data from a randomised controlled trial on ME/CFS
 

Bob

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I haven't read it yet, but he knows about ME:

You've got flu
And a hangover.
And you've just run 5 miles.
How do you feel?

Like someone with ME

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Dolphin

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The blog post brings up issues about the reporting of harms/safety/adverse reactions with the PACE Trial.

This is dealt with in quite a lot of depth in section 6 of this published paper:


Kindlon T. Reporting of Harms Associated with Graded Exercise Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Bulletin of the IACFS/ME. 2011;19(2):59-111
Free at: http://iacfsme.org/BULLETINFALL2011/Fall2011KindlonHarmsPaperABSTRACT/tabid/501/Default.aspx