“This is a vital document that gives a new focus and new direction to all involved with ME/CFS. It makes available the clinical experience and understanding of physicians who are preeminent in the field and encapsulates thousands of hours of clinical investigations that are important to sufferers from ME/CFS and all who are concerned for their care, support, and the understanding of this multifaceted organic illness.”
-Dr. Malcolm Hooper, Emeritus Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, Department of Life Sciences, University of Sunderland, UK
- Full Canadian Guidelines (164 pgs)
- Canadian Guidelines Overview (28 pgs)
On the Canadian ME Action Network website there's some background info on how the guidelines were developed. The Canadian Guidelines are currently the best in the world for the diagnosis, management and treatment of ME/CFS. They are based on the expert consensus panel's collective experience of diagnosing and treating over 20,000 patients world-wide.
Hard copies can be purchased from Haworth Press. There's info here about why the Canadian ME/CFS Guidelines are superior to the controversial Australian RACP Guidelines. The Australian ME/CFS Societies strongly endorse the Canadian Guidelines.
“Recently an international panel of experts, under the auspices of HealthCanada, developed a Clinical Consensus Definition (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Clinical Working Case Definition, Diagnostic and Treatment Protocols, Journal of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Vol. 11 (1) 2003).
This definition is far superior to the various other CFS definitions and has been welcomed internationally. It includes the hallmark features of ME (optional in the CFS definition) and neurological and cardiovascular symptoms which more accurately represent the true symptomatology and manifestations of the illness than other current (fatigue based) definitions. This represents the current best practice guidelines for treating and managing ME/CFS.”
-Jill McLaughlin, Co-Cure, 22nd September 2004
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