Examining case definition criteria for chronic fatigue syndrome and myalgic encephalomyelitis

Fatigue: Biomedicine, Health and Behavior

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 40-56

  Jason, Leonard A ^a   Sunnquist, Madison ^a   Brown, Abigail ^a   Evans, Meredyth ^a   Vernon, Suzanne D ^b   Furst, Jacob D ^a   Simonis, Valerie ^a  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CFIDS Association of America   (United States)

Author keywords

case definition; chronic fatigue syndrome; criteria; myalgic encephalomyelitis; symptoms

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CLASSIFICATION AND REGRESSION TREE ALGORITHM; COGNITION; DATA MINING; DECISION TREE; DEMOGRAPHY; EMPIRICISM; FATIGUE; HUMAN; MALAISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84897945085     PISSN: 21641846     EISSN: 21641862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/21641846.2013.862993     Document Type: Article

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