The research evidence on the effectiveness of interventions for the treatment and management of chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) published in a recent issue of Effective Health Care is reviewed.A-M BagnallNHS Centre for Reviews and DisseminationUniversity of YorkP Whiting...
The combined approach of graded activity and cognitive behaviour therapy in the treatment and management of chronic fatigue syndrome within an inpatient NHS neurology ward is discussed. A retrospective medical audit of 28 patients indicated that 57% had an increased activity level six months following ...
chronic fatigue or CFS) in the study sample drawn from NHS treatment services because they would have been too ill to have travelled to the sessions to take part and, therefore, the conclusions derived should not be applied to them. I hope that Dr Crawley's team will take up this suggesti...
Currently, no curative treatment exists for patients with chronic fatigue syndrome. The therapeutic approach to this syndrome requires a combination of different therapeutic modalities. The specific characteristics of the symptomatology of patients with chronic fatigue require a rapid adaptation of the ...
A large proportion of patients presenting with fatigue are not eligible for referral to the Department of Health specialist fatigue services, which represents an unmet need in terms of symptom management in current NHS services. 展开 关键词: Chronic disease chronic fatigue syndrome fatigue ...
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Aims We aimed to understand the acceptability of two internet-delivered home treatments for paediatric Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) as part of the FITNET-NHS randomised controlled trial. The two interventions were: i) an online Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) programme...
Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), also named myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), is a condition that still creates debates regarding definition, aetiology, diagnosis and treatment [1]. The condition is found world-wide, with a meta-analysis suggesting a prevalence of 0.76% [2]. Treatment trials have ...
That is CFS patients with mtDNA mutations are likely to be rare. This has implications for suggested treatment modalities of CFS patients, and for the suggested clinical follow-up of CFS patients.Abbreviations CFS: Chronic fatigue syndrome MtDNA: Mitochondrial DNA rCRS: Cambridge reference sequence...
Tumour Lysis Syndrome in children with haematological cancers: Experience at a tertiary care hospital in Karachi There are different types of leukaemia: acute leukaemia, which develops faster, and chronic leukaemia, which develops more slowly. NHS funding deal offers children new cancer therapy Haematopo...