That is my understanding too Suzy.
Also - as Bob noted - Jason was and still is recruiting and assessing for possibly another set of criteria.
This ICC muddies the already muddy waters. Personally, I cannot see it holding water with any of the 'authorities' in much the same way as the CCC hasn't.
Still, it does carry some user-friendly terminology and that is always to be welcomed. But as for better-defining what Myalgic Encephalomyelitis actually is - or proving to the 'establishment' that it exists - I don't believe it does.
In fact we are now back where we have been many times before. Back to the whole 'issue' surrounding label use and definition. And I just cannot see NICE or the BMJ for that matter - let alone our doctors - accepting this one.
And when it comes to the important matter of 'What does this do for me?' as a patient and in terms of 'better treatment', then I am afraid that it also falls down here too.
The fact that I 'like' some of the terminology and the diagnostic criteria - but not all of it - and the fact that I believe I 'qualify' - means absolutely nothing.
What right does a patient have to consider himself as 'qualifying' for any supposed 'neuroimmune' condition in the absence of any specific tests?
The psychiatrists' - if you like - argument of patient illness belief is not overcome in any way by me walking into my doctors office and waving a copy of this ICC under his nose.
This does not constitute 'proof' of anything. Not in the eyes of those who count the most. 'International consensus' or no International Consensus.
Edit:
Jason's new recruitment for new improved ME/CFS Criteria June 24 2011:
http://www.prohealth.com/ME-CFS/lib...0666.1042893.0.1.0.7550&eid=bakercape@aol.com