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Misdiagnosis of myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome
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==Overdiagnosis== Overdiagnosis involves diagnosing ME or CFS when it is not present, meaning when the patient does not meet the diagnostic criteria for ME or CFS, especially diagnosing CFS instead of [[chronic fatigue]] or [[idiopathic chronic fatigue]] is the cause of the symptoms. While there is no [[diagnostic biomarker|diagnostic medical test for ME or CFS]], medical tests must be run to identify illness that have similar symptoms but ''can'' be identified by particular tests.<ref name="CDC-differentialdiagnosis">{{Cite web|url=https://www.cdc.gov/me-cfs/healthcare-providers/diagnosis/other-conditions.html | title = Other Conditions for Evaluation {{!}} Information for Healthcare Providers {{!}} Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome | date = Jul 12, 2018 | website = [[Centers for Disease Control]]|language=en-us|access-date=2022-03-28}}</ref><ref name="CDC-clinicians">{{Cite web|url=https://www.cdc.gov/me-cfs/healthcare-providers/presentation-clinical-course/index.html | title = Presentation and Clinical Course of ME/CFS {{!}} Information for Healthcare Providers {{!}} Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome ME/CFS | last = Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | first = | authorlink = Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | date = 2019-11-19 | website = CDC|language=en-us|archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status=|access-date=2021-12-18}}</ref> Overdiagnosis of [[chronic fatigue syndrome]] can also result when CFS is diagnosed or referred interchangably with either [[chronic fatigue]] (CF), or another illness, e.g., regarding all [[fibromyalgia]] patients as having CFS or using myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) to refer to patients meeting CFS diagnostic criteria but not [[definitions of myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome|ME diagnostic criteria]].<br> Sometimes an CFS diagnosis is when chronic fatigue or chronic pain (or both) are present and fully explained by another fatiguing illness.
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