PACE press conference audio and transcript

[Daisymay]

Permission to repost:

Lancet podcast, February 18th 2011: Authors discuss the results of the PACE trial concerning treatment strategies for chronic fatigue syndrome.

This podcast was part of the PACE Trial Press Conference held at the Science Media Centre on the 17th February 2011


http://www.meactionuk.org.uk/pacepressconf.html

The audio takes a wee while to download.

 

[Esther12]

That's great. Thanks dasiymay and whoever did this.

 

[Dolphin]

(11:25) So if you take those two outcomes together, that is fatigue and physical functioning, again you see the same pattern of results with graded exercise therapy and cognitive behaviour therapy doing better than specialist medical care and adaptive pacing therapy and if you think about the number of people who get back to normal levels of functioning and fatigue then you see twice as many people in the graded exercise therapy and cognitive behaviour therapy group improving and getting back to normal compared the other two groups.

What a joke their definitions of "normal levels of functioning and fatigue" were. This was discussed in some of the published letters, for example: http://forums.phoenixrising.me/show...published-and-authors-response-(and-editorial)

 

[Bob]

(11:25) So if you take those two outcomes together, that is fatigue and physical functioning, again you see the same pattern of results with graded exercise therapy and cognitive behaviour therapy doing better than specialist medical care and adaptive pacing therapy and if you think about the number of people who get back to normal levels of functioning and fatigue then you see twice as many people in the graded exercise therapy and cognitive behaviour therapy group improving and getting back to normal compared the other two groups.

What a joke their definitions of "normal levels of functioning and fatigue" were. This was discussed in some of the published letters, for example: http://forums.phoenixrising.me/show...published-and-authors-response-(and-editorial)

With statements like that, no wonder the national media declared that we should all get out and exercise.