RogerBlack
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http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1359105317710246
Found from a retweet from prof Coyne, who is a coauthor with Keith Laws on another earlier paper http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(15)00551-9/abstract "Results of the PACE follow-up study are uninterpretable"
Abstract
Reducing the psychological distress associated with chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis is seen as a key aim of cognitive behavioural therapy. Although cognitive behavioural therapy is promoted precisely in this manner by the National Institute of Clinical Excellence, the evidence base on distress reduction from randomised controlled trials is limited, equivocal and poor quality. Crucially, data derived from multiple patient surveys point to worsening and increase distress; however, despite being invited, such data have been dismissed as second class by National Institute of Clinical Excellence. Crucially, the claim by National Institute of Clinical Excellence that cognitive behavioural therapy reduces distress in chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis is not only at odds with what patients repeatedly report in surveys, but with their own gold-standard randomised controlled trial and meta-analytic data.
Found from a retweet from prof Coyne, who is a coauthor with Keith Laws on another earlier paper http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(15)00551-9/abstract "Results of the PACE follow-up study are uninterpretable"
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