To introduce the James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership to doctors, 3 awareness days have been arranged. It is important that this process engages with as many clinicians as possible who have treated patients with Lyme disease, and across a wide range of specialties: neurology, rheumatology, paediatrics, infectious diseases, as well as general practice, physiotherapy […]
more...See http://www.hpa.org.uk/web/HPAwebFile/HPAweb_C/1294739293177 Published in January 2011, some 6 months later than expected, this review of ILADS guidelines is not so much the “appraisal” that it claims to be, but an attempt to find every possible bad point. It is a pity that those who maintain they are protecting our health cannot take a more rational, […]
more...The Lyme disease review panel of the Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) has released its long awaited final report on the 2006 Lyme disease guidelines. As in any report or paper the abstract and the press release are no substitute for the detail. The panel showed some significant shifts in emphasis, most notably on […]
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