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Majority Of Patients With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Fail To Receive Proper Care In EDSaturday 30 March 2019
Majority of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome fail to receive proper care in ED Patients presenting to the ED [Emergency Department] with chronic fatigue syndrome may receive inappropriate care due to a widespread misunderstanding of this condition among health care workers, according to researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center. Despite being one of the most common chronic conditions, chronic fatigue syndrome remains one of the most difficult to diagnose, due in part to the loose confederation of nonspecific symptoms associated with this condition, including fatigue, musculoskeletal pain and insomnia. Like related disorders, such as fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue remains shrouded in uncertainty, most notably among general practitioners and physicians unaccustomed to seeing it. To examine the experiences of patients with physician-diagnosed chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) in the ED setting, James N. Baraniuk, MD, professor of medicine in the division of rheumatology, immunology and allergy at Georgetown University, and Christian Timbol, MD, an emergency medicine resident physician at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, conducted a survey of 282 participants, specifically regarding the encounters they had with health care professionals. Symptoms of the condition were quantified using a severity score.
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