References

A list of references for all documentation on the Invest in ME Research web site.

  • 2 “Is chronic fatigue syndrome a neurological condition? A survey of UK neurologists,”

    5. W. Wojcik, D. Armstrong, and R. Kanaan, “Is chronic fatigue syndrome a neurological condition? A survey of UK neurologists,” Journal of Psychosomatic Research, vol. 70, no. 6, pp. 573–574, 2011. http://www.jpsychores.com/article/S0022-3999(11)00057-2/abstract

  • 4 Remit of the Chief Medical Officer

    Remit of the Chief Medical Officer

  • 5 - Chief Medical Officer’s Report of 2002

    A Report of the CFS/ME Working Group - Report to the Chief Medical Officer of an Independent Working Group https://www.investinme.org/Documents/CMO/CMO report 2002.pdf

  • 6 Flaws in BPS Theory for ME

  • 11 Remarks by Professor Mark Baker of NICE

    Remarks by Professor Mark Baker of NICE regarding the value of the NICE guidelines for ME https://www.investinme.org/IIMER-Newslet-1801-01.shtml#IiMER-reply18-2

  • 17 Sophia Mirza

    Sophia Mirza https://www.investinme.org/Article-050%20Sophia%20Mirza%2001.shtml https://www.investinme.org/Article-050%20Sophia%20Mirza%2001.shtml

  • 18 Visit to CMO

    https://www.investinme.org/IIME-Newslet-1701-01.shtml https://www.investinme.org/IIME-Newslet-1701-01.shtml

  • 23 Chronic Fatigue Syndrome:Written question - 146298

    Chronic Fatigue Syndrome:Written question - 146298
    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding from the public purse was allocated to biomedical research into myalgic encephalomyelitis in 2011-2012. https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2018-05-21/146298/

  • 25 Gibson Inquiry Report

    The report from the Gibson Inquiry of 2006 http://www.erythos.com/gibsonenquiry/docs/me_inquiry_report.pdf

  • 26 Letter to IiMER Regarding NICE Guidelines

    Letter to IiMER

  • 27 USA Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has issued an Addendum

    USA Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has issued an Addendum to the 2014 ME/CFS evidence review and downgraded CBT and GET. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK379582/

  • 28 Chronic Fatigue Syndrome:Written question - 146298

    Chronic Fatigue Syndrome:Written question - 146298
    https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2018-05-21/146298/

  • 30 Response to Institute of Medicine

    Invest in ME Research Response to Institute of Medicine “Beyond Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Redefining an Illness” Report https://www.investinme.org/Documents/IOM%20Contract/Invest%20in%20ME%20Response%20to%20INSTITUTE%20of%20MEDICINE%20Beyond%20ME-CFS%20Redefining%20an%20Illness.pdf

  • 31 PACE Trial

    The PACE Trial Comparison of adaptive pacing therapy, cognitive behaviour therapy, graded exercise therapy, and specialist medical care for chronic fatigue syndrome (PACE): a randomised trial. Lancet 377: 823–836. doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(11)60096-2 https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(11)60096-2/abstract

  • 32 David Tuller articles on PACE Trial

    David Tuller articles on PACE Trial
    References for David Tuller
    • Undark http://undark.org/article/chronic-fatigue-graded-exercise-pace/
    • Undark Podcast http://undark.org/2016/10/31/undark-podcast-chronic-fatigue/
    TRIAL BY ERROR: The Troubling Case of the PACE Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Study (second installment)
    TRIAL BY ERROR: The Troubling Case of the PACE Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Study (final installment)
    • PACE trial investigators respond to David Tuller http://www.virology.ws/2015/10/30/pace-trial-investigators-respond-to-david-tuller/
    David Tuller responds to the PACE investigators
    Trial By Error, Continued: Did the PACE Study Really Adopt a ‘Strict Criterion’ for Recovery?
    Trial By Error, Continued: Why has the PACE Study’s “Sister Trial” been “Disappeared” and Forgotten?
    Trial by error, Continued: PACE Team’s Work for Insurance Companies Is “Not Related” to PACE. Really?
    Revisiting the PLoS One economics analysis of PACE
    Trial By Error, Continued: Questions for Dr. White and his PACE Colleagues
    Trial By Error, Continued: Did the PACE Trial Really Prove that Graded Exercise Is Safe? (with Julie Rehmeyer)
    • Trial By Error, Continued: More Nonsense from The Lancet Psychiatry http://www.virology.ws/2016/01/19/trial-by-error-continued-more-nonsense-from-the-lancet-psychiatry/
    • Trial By Error, Continued: A Few Words About “Harassment” http://www.virology.ws/2016/02/01/trial-by-error-continued-a-few-words-about-harassment/
    • Trial By Error, Continued: My Questions for Lancet Editor Richard Horton http://www.virology.ws/2016/09/01/trial-by-error-continued-my-questions-for-lancet-editor-richard-horton/
    Trial By Error, Continued: The Real Data

  • 35 A preliminary analysis of ‘recovery’ from chronic fatigue syndrome in the PACE trial

    A preliminary analysis of ‘recovery’ from chronic fatigue syndrome in the PACE trial using individual participant data http://www.virology.ws/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/preliminary-analysis.pdf http://www.virology.ws/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/preliminary-analysis.pdf

  • 36 Reanalysis of PACE Trial results by Matthees et al

    A preliminary analysis of ‘recovery’ from chronic fatigue syndrome in the PACE trial using individual participant data reference http://www.virology.ws/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/preliminary-analysis.pdf

  • 37 CDC has updated their website about ME/CFS to use the 2015 Institute of Medicine report

    The CDC has updated their website about ME/CFS to use the 2015 Institute of Medicine report and has removed Graded Exercise Therapy (GET) and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) from its recommendations https://www.cdc.gov/me-cfs/about/index.html

  • 40 What is ME? What is CFS? INFORMATION FOR CLINICIANS AND LAWYERS

    What is ME? What is CFS? INFORMATION FOR CLINICIANS AND LAWYERS url reference

  • 43 Shakespeare, Tom, Watson N. and Alghaib O.A. (2016) Blaming the victim, all over again: Waddell and Aylward’s biophyschosocial (BPS) model of disability in Critical Social Policy 2016, Vol 36:4 (1-20)

    Shakespeare, Tom, Watson N. and Alghaib O.A. (2016) Blaming the victim, all over again: Waddell and Aylward’s biophyschosocial (BPS) model of disability in Critical Social Policy 2016, Vol 36:4 (1-20) http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0261018316649120

  • 44 Finland’s Valvira removes recommendation for use of CBT and GET

    Finland’s Valvira removes recommendation for use of CBT and GET https://www.investinme.org/IIMER-Newslet-1709-02.shtml https://www.investinme.org/IIMER-Newslet-1709-02.shtml

  • 45 AGREE Instrument

    AGREE Instrument (Appraisal of Guidelines Research and Evaluation Instrument https://www.agreetrust.org/ https://www.agreetrust.org/


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