FINE trial

The FINE trial was a study examining treatments for ME/CFS. It is considered to be the 'sister' to the PACE trial.

Funding
The FINE trial was funded by the UK's Medical Research Council.

Results
Sam Carter applied the criteria from a PACE trial study to the data from the FINE trial and questioned whether the recovery rates in the PACE study had been inflated by as much as six-fold as a result.

Criticism

 * 2015, Trial By Error, Continued: Why has the PACE Study’s “Sister Trial” been “Disappeared” and Forgotten?
 * 2010, Not So Fine After All: the FINE Trial Crashes to Earth
 * FINE Trials Experience
 * Failure of FINE trial comes as no surprise’ – MEA responds to study results in British Medical Journal
 * Add to FINE page https://forbetterscience.wordpress.com/2016/05/20/plos-correction-removes-previously-available-anonymised-patient-clinical-trial-data/

Consent Form

 * Add FINE consent form http://retractionwatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/11.4.16-Mitchell-Response-consent-form-version3-MREC-2460904.pdf

Investigators
Alison Wearden, Lisa Riste, Christopher Dowrick, Carolyn Chew-Graham, Richard Bentall, Richard Morriss, Sarah Peters, Graham Dunn, Gerry Richardson, Karina Lovell, Pauline Powell.

Learn more

 * FINE trial website