Sunday, April 17, 2011

The skewed data presented and published in The Lancet show that CBT/GET are of no clinical value

Margaret Williams 16th April 2011:

The trial was not studying the neurological disease ME/CFS but people with chronic fatigue in the absence of neurological signs, or “CFS/ME”….

If the Oxford criteria had been applied correctly there would be no people present with ME….

People should now be aware that the results were not clinically significant, and there remains little evidence to support the use of CBT and GET in the management of ME/CFS”.

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The failure of CBT/GET is written in the numbers: even the skewed data presented and published in The Lancet show that CBT/GET are of no clinical value in the cohort studied, and certainly do not confirm that the interventions are safe and effective enough to be generalised to everyone with ME/CFS or even “CFS/ME”. Read more>>

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