White & QMUL praising PACE's value and impact for a research assessment

[user9876]

This is just full of inaccuracies, contradictions and self-sufficiency...
Didn't find the courage to go on.

This is basically information they are submitting to government to assess the impact of the research they are doing. Its intended to be used as

• The four higher education funding bodies will use the assessment outcomes to inform the selective allocation of their grant for research to the institutions which they fund, with effect from 2015-16.
• The assessment provides accountability for public investment in research and produces evidence of the benefits of this investment.
• The assessment outcomes provide benchmarking information and establish reputational yardsticks, for use within the higher education (HE) sector and for public information.

Yet they seem to be getting away with inaccurate submissions as no one is checking.

 

[Esther12]

This is basically information they are submitting to government to assess the impact of the research they are doing. Its intended to be used as

Yet they seem to be getting away with inaccurate submissions as no one is checking.

I wonder how/if these claims are checked. Does all seem pretty shady.

 

[Sean]

...as improvement in exercise capacity is neither necessary nor sufficient for symptomatic or functional improvement.

So explain to me again how that fits into the behavioural-induced deconditioning model?

 

[Snow Leopard]

In a series of studies at Queen Mary, Prof White led work that established the separate existence, incidence and prognosis of the syndrome after an infection, and also showed that physical deconditioning predicted it [1].

Sigh. This was not a prospective study (patients were not tested before infection) and the measure used was described as 'not robust'.

Because all participants were recovering from infections, we did not use a robust measure of aerobic fitness, validated on people without infections. Instead, we modified a 1 min step test, which was designed to measure fitness in untrained young women

 

[Esther12]

Finally found this thread after many failed searches. REF2014 REF 2014


I just noticed this 2015 article: CFS listed as no 1 reason for good REF 2014 rating of IOPNN

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/ioppn/depts/pm/Newsletters/PsychMedNews1website.pdf

Most importantly of all, as a Department
we have been fantastically successful in
the recent REF: Psychological Medicine
contributed a staggering seven out of the
25 IMPACT cases studies, more than any
other Department at the IoPPN. These
were:
1 Improved evaluation and treatment
outcome for chronic fatigue syndrome

This REF2014 stuff was really financially important, and there's an awful lots of CFS/MUS BS in there.