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Making sense of fatigue - Julia Newton editorial in Occupational Medicine

Dolphin

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But we can still criticise those CDC studies by the fact that those people weren't actually diagnosed with CFS by their physician.
Yes, who these patients are is a big flaw especially when they started using the "empiric" criteria (Reeves et al., 2005) which was used.