"5 Key Things to Know About Data on Adverse Effects" (Aug 31) (not illness specific)

[Tom Kindlon]

5 Key Things to Know About Data on Adverse Effects
By Hilda Bastian
Posted: August 31, 2015
http://blogs.plos.org/absolutely-ma...things-to-know-about-data-on-adverse-effects/

Hilda Bastian works to make clinical effectiveness research accessible, including with a clinical epidemiology cartoon blog, Statistically Funny. Her day job is editor of PubMed Health and PubMed Commons. And she's an academic editor for PLOS Medicine.

 

[Tom Kindlon]

Sometimes, though, people just don’t believe what they do could cause harm. Just see how often exercise research doesn’t even look for data on injuries, for example, or psychologists don’t discuss whether or not therapists did harm. Or people believe that because something is herbal or based on vitamins, what harm can it do? (Sometimes plenty, it turns out.)

 

[Tom Kindlon]

I explored some of these issues in my open access paper:

Reporting of Harms Associated with Graded Exercise Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapyin Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
http://iacfsme.org/ME-CFS-Primer-Ed...of-Harms-Associated-with-Graded-Exercise.aspx

(Some didn't make it to the final draft unfortunately. A reviewer suggested I make a separate paper on some of the points but I haven't done it so far).

 

[barbc56]

Wow!! This is excellent! I have bookmarked the blog.

Thanks!

Barb