Protocol for the PACE trial: a randomised controlled trial of adaptive pacing, cognitive behaviour therapy, and graded exercise, as supplements to standardised specialist medical care versus standardised specialist medical care alone for patients with the chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis or encephalopathy.

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Published in BMC Neurol on March 08, 2007

Authors

Peter D White1, Michael C Sharpe, Trudie Chalder, Julia C DeCesare, Rebecca Walwyn, PACE trial group

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Psychological Medicine, Queen Mary School of Medicine and Dentistry, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, UK. p.d.white@qmul.ac.uk <p.d.white@qmul.ac.uk>

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