Authors
Jason LA, Sunnquist M, Brown A, Evans M, Newton JL
Institution
Center for Community Research, DePaul University, USA
Abstract
Considerable discussion has transpired regarding whether chronic fatigue syndrome is a distinct illness from myalgic encephalomyelitis. A prior study contrasted the myalgic encephalomyelitis International Consensus Criteria with the Fukuda and colleagues’ chronic fatigue syndrome criteria and found that the myalgic encephalomyelitis International Consensus Criteria identified a subset of patients with greater functional impairment and physical, mental, and cognitive problems than the larger group who met Fukuda and colleagues’ criteria. The current study analyzed two discrete data sets and found that the myalgic encephalomyelitis International Consensus Criteria identified more impaired individuals with more severe symptomatology.
Publication
Comment by ME Research UK
This publication of one of a series of articles on the use of the DePaul Symptom Questionnaire to examine the various diagnostic criteria used to assess ME, CFS, and ME/CFS. See our essay on the project, Evaluating the DePaul Symptom Questionnaire in the ME Research UK cohort.
