Sensitivity and Specificity of the CDC Empirical Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Case Definition
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Sensitivity and Specificity of the CDC Empirical Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Case Definition
In an effort to bring more standardization to the chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) Fukuda et al. case definition [1], the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has developed an empirical case definition [2] that specifies criteria and instruments to diagnose CFS. The present study investigated the sensitivity and specificity of this CFS empirical case definition with diagnosed individu...
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 2152-7180,2152-7199
DOI: 10.4236/psych.2010.11002