Category: Hilda bastian
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Cochrane CFS/ME Exercise Review “May Not Apply” to Patients Diagnosed with Newer ME/CFS Definitions, Per Lead Author
It’s hard to keep up with everything going on in this field these days. So I missed the fact that Lillebeth Larun, the lead author behind the deeply flawed Cochrane review of exercise therapies for what the organization then called “CFS/ME,” has concocted yet another unconvincing defense of her work. (Larun is a researcher and…
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Cochrane’s Decision on Exercise Review is Hurting Patients, Says Longtime Insider
I have written frequently about Cochrane, the organization renowned for its systematic reviews of medical interventions, and its deeply flawed review of exercise therapies for ME/CFS–including its decision last month to abandon its commitment to produce a new version. Now Hilda Bastian, an Australia health consumer advocate and longtime Cochrane insider, has posted a blog…