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BMJ news covers PACE trial FoI judgement

deleder2k

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This is some of it. PM me for the full version if you cannot look it up.

A tribunal has ruled that Queen Mary University of London must release data from a trial looking at treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome, which found that cognitive behavioural therapy and graded exercise therapy helped to alleviate the symptoms of the condition.1

The findings of the PACE (Pacing, graded Activity, and Cognitive behaviour therapy: a randomised Evaluation) trial, published in the Lancet in 2011,2 were questioned by some academics and patients, who argued that the PACE programme could harm patients.

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He added that it was “regrettable” that the UK Medical Research Council, which partly funded the £5m (€5.8m; $6.5m) study, “did not specify that the trial data be made available to other researchers.”
 
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deleder2k

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Better to give the BMJ masses of traffic on that particular story, @deleder2k.

I agree, but can anyone access it? I don't understand whether this is behind a paywall or not. I can see it, and I haven't paid a dime.

I'll delete it. If someone is having trouble reading it; PM me.
 

Sasha

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I agree, but can anyone access it? I don't understand whether this is behind a paywall or not. I can see it, and I haven't paid a dime.

I'll delete it. If someone is having trouble reading it; PM me.

Seems to be a bit of a mix - I couldn't see it but then other people said they could - I thought things must have changed.