I get quite frustrated at seeing very disparate numbers on economic impact of this disease in material put out by government agencies.
This paper says $19-51 billion (I believe though that's based on Reeves criteria),
the
announcement for the Federal Partners Report and the
P2P website say:
"The economic burden of ME/CFS, including annual health care costs, is estimated to be between $1.9 billion and $7.2 billion."
And the
Federal Partners Report says the range is $18-24 billion.
The aim of the educational module is to educate healthcare professionals about symptoms across different definitions..... so even though they say the IOM report provides diagnostic criteria, this module doesn't seem to follow it....
As for results - while I am glad there is some increase in the percentage of students who say they understand the effects of PEM, that increase is only 20% of students..... That means too many of them still do not understand this essential feature.