Pressure grows on Lancet to review “flawed” PACE trial
BMJ 2018; 362 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.k3621 (Published 22 August 2018) Cite this as: BMJ 2018;362:k3621
- Ingrid Torjesen
- London
Over a hundred academics, patient groups, lawyers, and politicians have now signed an open letter to the Lancet calling on the journal to commission an independent reanalysis of the data from the PACE trial—a study into treatment for myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME)/chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), which it published the results of in 2011.1
The PACE trial showed that adding cognitive behavioural therapy and graded exercise therapy to usual specialist medical care moderately improved outcomes for people with ME/CFS but that adding adaptive pacing therapy was of no benefit.
The …
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