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The draft updated NICE guidance for ME/CFS highlights the unreliability of subjective outcome measures in non-blinded trials

Published:2021-01-28 Issue:1 Volume:27 Page:9-12
ISSN:1359-1053
Container-title:Journal of Health Psychology
language:en
Short-container-title:J Health Psychol

Author:

Vink Mark¹^ORCID,Vink-Niese Alexandra²

Affiliation:

1. Family and Insurance Physician, The Netherlands

2. Independent Researcher, Germany

Abstract

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recently published its draft updated guideline on the diagnosis and management of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). NICE concluded that ME/CFS is a complex multisystem chronic medical condition for which graded exercise therapy should not be used and cognitive behavioural therapy is only a supportive therapy and not a treatment or cure. The draft guidance also highlighted the unreliability of subjective outcome measures in non-blinded trials. High quality randomised controlled ME/CFS trials are now needed to find pharmacological treatments that lead to substantial objective improvement and restore the ability to work.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Applied Psychology

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1359105321990810

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