An open letter to Psychological Medicine about “recovery” and the PACE trial
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An open letter to Psychological Medicine about “recovery” and the PACE trial is a letter dated March 13, 2017 and written to Dr. Robin Murray and Dr. Kenneth Kendler and Psychological Medicine, Cambridge University Press about the paper Recovery from chronic fatigue syndrome after treatments given in the PACE trial which states there is a recovery for patients with Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) utilizing Graded Exercise Therapy (GET) and Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT).
The letter concludes:
- To protect patients from ineffective and possibly harmful treatments, White et al.’s recovery claims cannot stand in the literature. Therefore, we are asking Psychological Medicine to retract the paper immediately. Patients and clinicians deserve and expect accurate and unbiased information on which to base their treatment decisions. We urge you to take action without further delay.
Signatories[edit | edit source]
- Dharam Ablashi, DVM, MS, Dip Bact
- James Baraniuk, MD
- Lisa Barcellos, MPH, PhD
- Lucinda Bateman, MD
- Alison C. Bested, MD, FRCPC
- Molly Brown, PhD
- John Chia, MD
- Todd E. Davenport, PT, DPT, MPH, OCS
- Ronald Davis, PhD
- Simon Duffy, PhD, FRSA
- Jonathan Edwards, MD
- Derek Enlander, MD
- Meredyth Evans, PhD
- Kenneth Friedman, PhD
- Robert Garry, PhD
- Keith Geraghty, PhD
- Ian Gibson, PhD
- Rebecca Goldin, PhD
- Ellen Goudsmit, PhD, FBPsS
- Maureen Hanson, PhD
- Malcolm Hooper, PhD
- Leonard Jason, PhD
- Michael Kahn, MD
- Jon Kaiser, MD
- David Kaufman, MD
- Betsy Keller, PhD
- Nancy Klimas, MD
- Andreas Kogelnik, MD, PhD
- Eliana Lacerda, MD, MSc, PhD
- Charles Lapp, MD
- Bruce Levin, PhD
- Alan Light, PhD
- Vincent Lombardi, PhD
- Alex Lubet, PhD
- Steven Lubet
- Sonya Marshall-Gradisnik, PhD
- Patrick McKnight, PhD
- Jose Montoya, MD, FACP, FIDSA
- Zaher Nahle, PhD, MPA
- Henrik Nielsen, MD
- James Oleske, MD, MPH
- Elisa Oltra, PhD
- Richard Podell, MD, MPH
- Nicole Porter, PhD
- Vincent Racaniello, PhD
- Arthur Reingold, MD
- Anders Rosén, MD
- Peter Rowe, MD
- William Satariano, PhD
- Ola Didrik Saugstad, MD, PhD, FRCPE
- Charles Shepherd, MB, BS
- Christopher Snell, PhD
- Donald Staines, MBBS, MPH, FAFPHM, FAFOEM
- Philip Stark, PhD
- Eleanor Stein, MD, FRCP(C)
- Staci Stevens, MA
- Julian Stewart, MD, PhD
- Leonie Sugarman, PhD
- John Swartzberg, MD
- Ronald Tompkins, MD, ScD
- David Tuller, DrPH
- Rosemary Underhill, MB, BS, MRCOG, FRCSE
- Rosamund Vallings, MNZM, MB, BS
- Michael VanElzakker, PhD
- Mark VanNess, PhD
- Mark Vink, MD
- Frans Visser, MD
- Tony Ward, MA (Hons), PhD, DipClinPsyc
- William Weir, FRCP
- John Whiting, MD
- Carolyn Wilshire, PhD
- Michael Zeineh, MD, PhD
- Marcie Zinn, PhD
- Mark Zinn, MM
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