Firestormm
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Morning y'all,
Am working on something, and I wondered if anyone had seen any research that might have sought to quantify the number of people diagnosed or seen, with e.g. severe, moderate, mild ME/Whatever?
I think that generally speaking, as patients, we tend to consider approximately 25% of patients to be 'severe' at any one time and work from there, but I recently looked at a costing's template for use with the NICE Guidelines and noticed that this indicator for service provision was set at 10%
There are several reasons for this being set so relatively low, and the figure can be adjusted upwards, but I wondered if there had been any reported evidence you might have seen relating to prevalence of categorisation?
I did have a wee look at the 25% Group's website but couldn't see anything relating to their determination/estimate: http://www.25megroup.org/
If not I'll ask them and see if they know of anything.
Cheers
Oh here's the NICE Guidelines implementation costings template I was talking about:
http://guidance.nice.org.uk/CG53/CostingTemplate/xls/English Look at Step Two.
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Am working on something, and I wondered if anyone had seen any research that might have sought to quantify the number of people diagnosed or seen, with e.g. severe, moderate, mild ME/Whatever?
I think that generally speaking, as patients, we tend to consider approximately 25% of patients to be 'severe' at any one time and work from there, but I recently looked at a costing's template for use with the NICE Guidelines and noticed that this indicator for service provision was set at 10%
There are several reasons for this being set so relatively low, and the figure can be adjusted upwards, but I wondered if there had been any reported evidence you might have seen relating to prevalence of categorisation?
I did have a wee look at the 25% Group's website but couldn't see anything relating to their determination/estimate: http://www.25megroup.org/
If not I'll ask them and see if they know of anything.
Cheers
Oh here's the NICE Guidelines implementation costings template I was talking about:
http://guidance.nice.org.uk/CG53/CostingTemplate/xls/English Look at Step Two.
Mods: I didn't know where to pop this one - so please move if necessary. Thanks.