Treatment outcome in adults with chronic fatigue syndrome: a prospective study in England based on the CFS/ME National Outcomes Database.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Crawley, E; Collin, S M; White, P D; Rimes, K; Sterne, J A C; May, M T
- Source
- QJM: An International Journal of Medicine. Aug2023, Vol. 116 Issue 8, p731-731. 1p.
- Subject
- *CHRONIC fatigue syndrome
*DATABASES
*TREATMENT effectiveness
*LONGITUDINAL method
*ADULTS
- Language
- ISSN
- 1460-2725
The collection of a subset of CFS/ME patient data as part of the.national CFS/ME collaborative was confirmed to be service evaluation by the North Somerset & Bristol Research Ethics Committee under REC reference 07/Q2006/48, and in a letter dated 29 January 2007 the Chair of the Research Ethics Committee had previously confirmed (a) that it would not be necessary to apply for ethical permission to use the data being collected as part of service evaluation for the national CFS/ME collaborative and (b) that if in future this data were to be used as part of a research project, this would be agreeable. The "Ethical Approval" section of this paper has been updated to read The data used in this study was originally collected and collated in the National Outcomes Database for the purposes of evaluation of CFS/ME services. [Extracted from the article]