Posts Tagged ‘fibromyalgia’

The Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire (FIQ): A Review of its Development, Current Version, Operating Characteristics and Uses

A questionnaire on fibromyalgia pain and associated symptoms, and a discussion of the questionnaire’s validity and uses.  Includes charts, tables.

http://www.myalgia.com/FIQ/Bennett%20FIQ%20review.pdf

 

Commentary: ‘What’s in a Name? That Which We Call a Rose by Any Other Name would Smell as Sweet

International Journal of Epidemiology. Disputing Cairns’ and Godwin’s study of patterns in post-Lyme syndrome, the authors suggest other causes for post-Lyme syndrome.

http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/34/6/1345.pdf

Post-Lyme Borreliosis Syndrome: A Meta-Analysis of Reported Symptoms

International Journal of Epidemiology. Cairns and Godwin’s meta-analysis points to a cluster of persistent symptoms in patients post-treatment than would appear in the general population. Includes tables.

http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/34/6/1340