Comment on: Managing chronic fatigue syndrome in children. [BMJ. 1997]
Editor—In his editorial on managing the chronic fatigue syndrome in children Harvey Marcovitch implies that a 37% response rate to our questionnaire about long term sickness absence in schools was poor and insufficiently explained, and he states that we overinterpreted the resulting data.1 2
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Source: Dowsett EG, Colby J. Chronic fatigue syndrome in children. Journal was wrong to criticise study in schoolchildren. BMJ. 1997 Oct 11;315(7113):949. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2127623/